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GLASGOW
MEN SNAP UP TOP TWO TATTOO PRIZES
Posted
29th January 2002
An
impressive photograph of a re-enactment of The 79th Highlanders
repelling French Cavalry at Waterloo has been judged the best
pictorial moment of the 2001 Tattoo in a competition run by the
show organisers last summer.
Craig
Bryce, a Glasgow College Education Manager, from the Scottish
commuter railway town of Lenzie, scooped the top award and £500
for his prize-winning shot in the twelfth annual Tattoo photographic
contest.
Competition
Judges, former Scotsman Picture Editor, Stewart Boyd, Photography
Lecturer and former official Tattoo Photographer, Brian Swinburne,
along with Mark Owens, the Official Army in Scotland and Edinburgh
Tattoo Photographer, examined some 250 entries submitted by visitors
from 12 countries before agreeing on a winner.
"We
were looking for pictures which evoked something of the atmosphere
and excitement of the Tattoo", revealed Mr Swinburne.
£250
and second place went to retired Engineer, Jack Stewart, another
resident of Lenzie near Glasgow, for his colourful photograph
of the Russian Cossack State Song and Dance Ensemble in action.
Mr
Stewart took third place in the Tattoo's 1998 photo contest while
his wife Janet has successfully secured an award as a finalist
in the 2001 competition.
Runner-up,
Texan Kelly Rider from Austin, received £150 for her striking
shot of some of the Military's finest drummers slowly beating
time during a musical and marching display.
Highly
Commended, Commended and Finalist prizes were also awarded as
follows:-
Highly
Commended:
Mr Duncan McEwan, Renfrewshire, Glasgow
Mr N de Veill, Chilworth, Surrey
Mr V R W Shepherd, Wakefield, West Yorkshire
Commended:
Mr Roger Busbridge, Horley, Surrey
Mr I J Dean, Castle Bromwich, Birmingham
Ms Heidi Nygaard, Oslo, Norway
Finalist:
Mrs Janet Stewart, Lenzie, Glasgow
Ms Janet Morrison, Sidcup, Kent
Mr Simon Pink, Edinburgh
All
winners receive two tickets for this year's Tattoo, a presentation
certificate and a mounted enlargement of their prize entry.
It
is anticipated that an exhibition of the winners' photographs
will be held before this year's event (2-24 August 2002), when
there will be another opportunity to win cash prizes worth £900.
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Sponsors
this year whose valuable support is gratefully acknowledged include:-
The Royal Bank of Scotland
Norwich Union
Standard Life
Dewar's World of Whisky
Ford
For
further information, please contact :
The
Tattoo Office, 32 Market Street, Edinburgh EH1 1QB
Tel: 0131 225 4783 Fax: 0131 225 8627
Email:
edintattoo@edintattoo.co.uk
Prints
of the winning photographs are available on request.
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