Silent Covid Morning by Besnik Mehmed was shot in central London during the COVD-19 pandemic. “I

had miscalculated my journey to work that day, so I went around to take a couple of images. All the

landmarks around London Bridge were empty. But it was the silence that I found most astonishing, and

this view complimented it perfectly for me”. Besnik has won the prize of a 1:1 with LPOTY judge Paul Sanders.

Roj Whitelock was commended for his image shot in his garden shed.

"This is my Isolation Landscape, a pano captured in the garden shed. It's become something of a refuge in recent weeks. I'd written a few words to help process my feelings about coronavirus and being in lockdown. This image was a response to the following lines;

"For some this passes like a dream,
Thumbing forgotten paperbacks,
Baking flapjacks,
Box sets and TV shows,
The world pressing against the windows."

Carol Gregory was commended for her shot of contraction patterns in soot on her garden incinerator lid.

"When lockdown started, I was working from home and then furloughed. With time on my hands, I started to sort out various boxes of old papers, including many from clearing my parents’ house several years ago. It was therapeutic to be clearing things, making progress with something I found difficult. This image was taken the day after the burn."

Simon Brown was commended for his shot taken during the first couple of weeks of lockdown. "This was the view from the corner of my kitchen window first thing in the morning, I thought it made rather a nice abstract image as well as reflecting how people were feeling at the time."