Francis Mountford took away the main prize of a digital Nikon SLR camera at the awards at Denbies Vineyard on 10 July 2007, with her view of parishioners leaving South Holmwood Church on Palm Sunday. The runner up was James Duffy for his photograph of the Stepping Stones at West Humble.

In the under 17 category, Mark Richardson took away a 7 mega-pixel Nikon Coolpix compact camera for his black and white photograph of the ridge along the Chimneypots walk from Brockham to Betchworth.

Tony Hines was also awarded a 7 megapixel Nikon Coolpix camera for his colourful camera phone picture of Friday Evening Cricket at the Recreation Ground Brockham.

Finalists were invited to an exhibition and final judging at Denbies Vineyard.

Judges and local professional photographers, Jon Gardy and Bob Barlay had the challenging task of selecting the final winners.

All the finalists are shown on the gallery pages.

Over two hundred entries were received from people in and around Surrey, capturing an extraordinary view of Life in Mole Valley, from the little known ‘Tapwood Vampires’ to the tragedy of dead deer at the roadside.

Of course the usual suspects were there with stunning landscapes, a variety of Mole Valley folk going about their lives and some beautiful wildlife photographs.

The competition was sponsored by the National Lottery and entries submitted in three categories; Category 1 for over 18’s; Category 2 for 17 and under and Category 3 for mobile camera phone users.

“Reducing the entries down from two hundred to the final 30 was a challenging job and unfortunately some excellent pictures just didn’t quite make it,” said Nick Caddick, Chairman Brockham Green Village Society.

“What is clear from the competition is that Mole Valley is a varied and exciting region of the South East, captured so wonderfully by people from all parts of the County. It has to be said that digital photography has democratised this stunning art form and there are some truly gifted and expressive photographers who would not have had the opportunity to show their work had it not been for this competition.”

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