Photos on Sunday winners: winter

Published: 7:00AM GMT twenty-one February 2010

It is no warn that we perceived some-more than 300 photographs on the thesis of winter.

It is no warn that we perceived some-more than 300 photographs on the thesis of winter.

Over the past integrate of months, there has been copiousness of subject-matter for eager photographers, but even were dismayed by the series of sleet landscapes that we received.

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We were lucky, however, that the customary was so strong.

We have 3 estimable winners, and a good choice of runners-up.

In initial place was the incredibly dour but pleasing wintry shot taken by Mark Helliwell, from Cheshire, on his Nikon D300, and with a 18-200 Nikkor lens.

It was taken in Higher Sutton, outward Macclesfield, seeking towards the BT communications building at Croker Hill.

Mr Helliwell, 44, explains that he was "particularly struck by the line of trees and unconditional figure of the dry-stone wall, all heading towards the tower".

He knows the area well. He says: "This is one of my prime locations to shoot. Just at the back of me is a smashing perspective of Shuttlingsloe, well known as the Cheshire Matterhorn, at only over 500 metres."

Running a close second was a design entitled Frosty Fern, taken in the New Forest on Bratley Plain by Stephen Websdale from Hampshire, that tender the judges with the jam-packed colour and painterly qualities.

A white winter is zero if not about children, however. And there have been copiousness of days this year for them to have had fun.

The third-placed sketch captures a genuine clarity of the fool around to be had in a blizzard. It was taken by Anna Baria, 37, on her Nikon D80 at the Spa Pavilion on the beachfront at Felixstowe in January.

It shows Mrs Baria"s son, Harry, pulling Poppy, her daughter, by the charge on a sledge.

Next month"s thesis is: The Coast