Welsh photographers commended for Network Rail’s ‘Lines in the Landscape’ award

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Three talented Welsh photographers have received commendations for the Network Rail ‘Lines in the Landscape’ special award at the Take a View Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards 2011.

Among the trio of runners up is a family of father and son – Taliesin and Robin Coombes.

These four entries from Wales have dominated the short list for the Network Rail award, which celebrates the best photography for the British rail network.

These were chosen from around 500 entries by competition organiser and renowned photographer, Charlie Waite.

Photographs by Rory Trappe (North Wales), Taliesin Coombes (Cardiff) and Robin Coombes (Cardiff) will be featured in the awards book, Landscape Photographer of the Year Collection 5, by AA Publishing.

Their work will also be part of an electronic display along with more than 100 of the very best images from this year’s competition at a free exhibition at The National Theatre on the Southbank in London from 5 December 2011.

Last year’s Young Photographer of the Year, Taliesin Coombes, picked up a 2011 commendation for the Network Rail ‘Lines in the Landscape’ section.

Two photographs of the railway network taken by his father Robin were also commended for the same award. Rory Trappe was commended for a long exposure shot of a train leaving the Blaenau Ffestiniog station in North Wales.

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