When FujiFilm established the masterpiece award, I felt that I had just the image for the competition,. The Grand Canal in Venice is well known to all travel photographers. If I could win the competition with a scene photographed thousands of times, then I could say that I can create some thing special.

This image also won a gold award at the Irish National Photographic awards organised by the IPPA . It also won a place in the travel photographer of the year book.

The following year I was pleased to win the title “British Travel and Landscape photographer of the Year or