{"id":103726,"date":"2017-03-29T11:00:26","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T10:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amateurphotographer.co.uk\/?p=103726"},"modified":"2017-03-29T11:00:26","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T10:00:26","slug":"fotospeed-photographer-year-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/photo-news\/fotospeed-photographer-year-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Fotospeed Photographer of the Year 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div id=&quot;attachment_103730&quot;  class=\"c-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 520px\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Fotospeed-POTY-Alan-Leightley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-103730\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Fotospeed-POTY-Alan-Leightley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"575\" \/><\/a>\t\t\t<p class=\"c-caption__text\">\u00a9 Alan Leightley<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<p>Fotospeed have announced their Photographer of the Year award for this year at The Photography Show earlier this year, with Alan Leightley chosen by hand from the raft of entries to their weekly #fsprintmonday photography competitions on social media.<\/p>\n<p>He submitted the winning image, an impressive shot of the Milky Way over the Duke of Portland Boathouse, Ullswater, in the Lake District, to the Twitter competition in August last year. His shot and the other shortlisted #fsprintmonday winners were displayed to the public at the Photography Show.<\/p>\n<p>As overall winner of the competition, Alan will be receiving over \u00a32,000 in prizes, including a Canon A2 printer, \u00a3500-worth of high quality Fotospeed inkjet paper, and a day of one-to-one bespoke tutoring with award-winning photographer and photojournalist Doug Chinney \u2013 including a dawn shoot and workshops on colour management, using Lightroom and printing.<\/p>\n\t\t<div id=&quot;attachment_103729&quot;  class=\"c-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 622px\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-103729\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Fotospeed-POTY-Alan-Leightley-with-his-shot-602x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"400\" \/>\t\t\t<p class=\"c-caption__text\">Alan is presented a print of his shot at The Photography Show<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<p>Leightley, who is based in Northumberland and is a self-employed joiner by trade, drove over four hours each way to capture the image after using a photography app to work out where the Milky Way was going to appear.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of his winning shot, he said: \u201cI often go across that way and knew of the boathouse. I use Photographers Ephemeris, and so I knew that the Milky Way was going to line up with the boathouse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPhotography is my hobby, as I\u2019m a self-employed joiner, so I\u2019ve never printed any of my photos in my life. To have a decent printer to be able to do that is amazing. And to be able to spend a day alongside Doug Chinnery will be excellent \u2013 he\u2019s such a well-respected photographer in the industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Toby Herlinger, Sales and Marketing Director at Fotospeed, said \u201cThe aim of running our #fsprintmonday competition and selecting one photographer to be our Fotospeed Photographer of the Year was to encourage people to share images that they\u2019re proud of and to support photographers in their enthusiasm for printing. Alan\u2019s photograph really stood out to us \u2013 it really is a striking shot \u2013 and we\u2019re very pleased to be able to give him a printer so he can create prints out of his fantastic images.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about Fotospeed and their weekly competition, visit their website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fotospeed.com\">www.fotospeed.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fotospeed&#8217;s Photographer of the Year was announced at The Photography Show, awarded this year to Alan Leightley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1436,"featured_media":103730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"product-category":[],"class_list":["post-103726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.8 (Yoast SEO v26.8) - 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