{"id":174713,"date":"2025-10-02T08:05:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T08:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/174713\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T08:05:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T08:05:19","slug":"image-of-wittenham-clumps-on-a-misty-morning-wins-drone-photography-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/174713\/","title":{"rendered":"Image of Wittenham Clumps on a misty morning wins drone photography award"},"content":{"rendered":"

Galya DimitrovaSouth of England<\/p>\n

\"ChristopherChristopher Harrison<\/p>\n

Christopher Harrison said his photograph highlighted “a perspective that you can only get with the flexibility a drone can give you”<\/p>\n

A photographer has won a prestigious award for his drone image capturing the perfect moment of trees casting a shadow into early-morning mist.<\/p>\n

Christopher Harrison, from near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, scooped first prize in the nature category at the world’s leading international drone photography competition, the Siena Awards<\/a> in Italy, on 27 September.<\/p>\n

The Long Shadow was captured at Brightwell Barrow near the Wittenham Clumps, where a small group of trees stands on a small, raised hill. <\/p>\n

Mr Harrison said it highlighted “a perspective that you can only get with the flexibility a drone can give you”.<\/p>\n

\"ChristopherChristopher Harrison<\/p>\n

Christopher Harrison (farthest on the left) said he had mingled “with some of the best photographers across the world” at the awards ceremony in Siena<\/p>\n

He said he had started taking photography “more seriously” a few years ago.<\/p>\n

“I just love being outside and in nature,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I started taking my camera out with me, started going out at sunrise, which is just the best part of the day for photography because you get interesting conditions.”<\/p>\n

\"ChristopherChristopher Harrison<\/p>\n

Christopher Harrison said he planned to continue to shoot the “amazing locations” across Oxfordshire and Berkshire<\/p>\n

It was that rare blend of the right conditions when “the mist can sit at perfectly the right level, where the trees essentially cast a shadow into the mist directly just as the sun comes up above the horizon”. <\/p>\n

That was how his winning shot became possible he explained. <\/p>\n

“The photograph is quite simple when you first look at it,” Mr Harrison said.<\/p>\n

“But when you look a bit closer, you can see the detail in the trees, you can see the details in the fields around the trees.”<\/p>\n

\"FabioFabio Di Pietro<\/p>\n

The Siena Awards ceremony took place in Italy on 27 September<\/p>\n

He described the awards ceremony in Siena as “a fantastic event, mingling with some of the best photographers across the world”. <\/p>\n

Moving forward, Mr Harrison, who has a full-time job, said he “just want to keep shooting the local area”.<\/p>\n

“Oxfordshire, even Berkshire, has some amazing locations to shoot, so I plan to continue doing that,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I’ve got a couple of exhibitions coming up later in the year locally in Henley, so I look forward to that and just see what the next six months to a year brings.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Galya DimitrovaSouth of England Christopher Harrison Christopher Harrison said his photograph highlighted “a perspective that you can only…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-174713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}