Andy walks away with the top prize in AONB photography competition

Andy Craig's winning image of footsteps in the sand.

This year's winning photograph for the front cover of the Northumberland Coast AONB 2019 Visitor Guide was taken by Embleton photographer, Andy Craig.

Ever since the first visitor guide was published in 2010, the Northumberland Coast AONB has run a competition to find the front cover image for the following year's guide. Some stunning images haev been submitted, which has made the competition very difficult to judge.

This year, the judges - Jane Coltman (JPIMedia), Ken Stait (Stait Photo) and Coun Jeff Watson (AONB Partnership Chairman) - were looking for an image that not only summed up what the AONB 'means' to so many, but also a one that would work with the new A4 format of our Visitor Guide. The perspective of Andy's photograph along the beach back towards Dunstanburgh Castle, with its human and canine footprints, met that brief perfectly.