Thanks to everyone who entered our "My Home Town" photography competition, in the end we had around 220 entries and a really high standard. The time has come to announce the winning photograph, with a free Silicon Beach Training course here in Brighton for the photographer: the winner will be able to choose any one or two day course with Social Media Training, Photoshop Training, Wordpress Training or Advanced Excel Training in Brighton, Sussex, being just a few of the training courses on offer.

There's only one winner, but entries were so impressive that we've also featured the six shortlisted runners up. Thanks to our fantastic photographer judges Miss Aniela and Pete Barr Watson who kindly took the time to pick a winner, based on Originality, Interpretation of the Theme and Composition.

For those who missed out last time, see our current "Summer" photography competition with an amazing Photoshop workshop for the winner.

WINNING PHOTOGRAPH:

Road side dentist by Anil Risal Singh

This photograph was taken by Anil Risal Singh at Banaras, India in November 2008: a crowded market place showing a traditional dentist treating his patients on the road side, having many patients waiting in a queue for their turn to come.

Anil was born 1st February, 1954 and has been pursuing photography as a medium of creative expression for the last 40 years. Anil has organized, judged and participated in many photography exhibitions and competitions, and at present is President of Lucknow Camera Club. He has published several articles and papers on photography and has also taught photography for over 28 years at the National Research Laboratory for Conservation of Cultural Property (NRLC) as well as guest lecturing at various universities.

He has a number of International Photographic Honours including Associateship of the Royal Photographic Society (ARPS) of Great Britain; Internationale de L’Art Photographique (AFIAP) of France; Excellence Federation Internationale de L’Art Photographique (EFIAP) of France; Fellowship (FFIP) of Federation of Indian Photography of Kolkata, India; Master Federation Internationale de L’Art Photographique (MFIAP) of France (the tenth Indian ever to get this rare honour), and India International Photographic Council’s Platinum Medal. Of over 250 awards and honour certificates, also of note is the Professional Grant by Charles Wallace Trust, to visit and study photographic collections in the UK.

View Anil's Flickr Photostream.

RUNNERS UP:

Casc by Dan Oara

Dan Oara was born in west of Romania in a city called Timisoara and started taking photos at the age of 14 and then studied industrial design at art high school but was not really into it . After that he got a place at the university of cinematography in Bucharest where he studied being a “director of photography” which he says "was great but I was more attracted to photography. That’s why I chose to stick with cinematography and try to approach a deeper side of photography". Most of Dan’s subjects are related to atmosphere, natural light and humans. He has been involved in projects and exibitions in the UK and in Romania. His last project in London was related to the habitat of Eastern Europe. In another exibition he presented atmosphere and human shapes.

View Dan's Photography Website and Flickr Photostream.

Ere we go by Mike McCormick

 The shot was taken some while ago on the Brighton Pier amusement park. I loved the expression on their faces especially the woman who seems to be wondering where his hand is!!! An Alternative title????

It was shot on a little Nikon 5700 5 Megapixel camera. I thought the addition of the startled gull counterbalanced the shot and its expression matched the peoples expression.

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Bambi van by Nick Eastham

I'm a hobbyist photographer really, in that I rarely make any money from it and that I have a day job that pays the bills.

Although I didn't grow up in Brighton & Hove, I have lived here longer than anywhere else and condsider it my home town. Since moving to Hove I have not lived any further than a few streets from the seafront and have consequently spent a lot of time down there. This photograph is just a typical scene that I might see any day of the week as I cycle to work and back, it is colourful, a bit traditional, a bit modern and also a little bit odd, like Brighton & Hove.

View Nick's Photography Website and Flickr Photostream

Shoreham by Paul Walsh

I am 32 years old and originally from Birmingham. I moved to Brighton a year ago to find a new home and a more sunnier side to life. I graduated from LJMU in 2002 where I studied fine art/documentary photography. Since then Ive been doing a mixture of travelling, working in various commercial photographic roles and following my own photographic endeavours at home and abroad. I currently earn a living between being a post man and a free lance photographer.

When I first moved to Brighton I began a new photographic project looking at the south coast of England. I will be continuing with the project for the next 2 years until its completion. The image I submitted is from that set and can be seen on my website under "work in progress".

The photograph I chose is particularly poignant for me as It captures my familiar feeling of departure and it also reminds me how very attached I am to my new home in Brighton. I often find myself leaving Brighton in order to explore the south coast of England with my camera. This photo was taken on a train that had recently departed Brighton station and was pulling into Shoreham.

View Paul's Photography Website and Flickr Photostream

Seafront by Emma Gutteridge

Emma has lived in Brighton for 6 years and her love of photography stems back to working as picture editor for print magazines for a number of years. For years, she carried around a point and shoot but these days, she can be seen wandering around Brighton & Hove with her DSLR photographing everything in her path. She's also been keeping herself busy with gig photography for a youth and music culture agency and press shots for local DJ's and music artists.

View Emma's Flickr Photostream.

Up For It - Brighton by Jerry Webb

Jerry has worked as a Graphic Designer for many years, both in the UK and abroad. He has also worked as an Art Editor and Magazine Designer and currently works as an Event Designer branding conferences and product launches.

Although eager to experiment with any form of photography, he is happiest walking the streets photographing people and events. His pictures are digital, generally wide angle and monochrome and are taken in and around Brighton where he lives and works.

View Jerry's Flickr Photostream.

Thanks again to our judges and to everyone who entered; the judging was really very close and if you didn't win this time, don't forget to try our new photography competition!