Firstly, many thanks to all of you who took the time to enter the competition and make it such a pleasure to judge.
I have managed to reduce the huge number of entries down to a shortlist of just 5; 3 landscape/trees-in nature images and 2 bonsai.
Would First, Second, Third placed winners please contact me by PM with their postal address.
In reverse order, the winning entries are:
In Third place is VNOLAN
I LOVE this tree, fantastic movement in the branches and trunk and exceptional taper in the branches. I would love to be able to replicate this tree as a bonsai and for me it is truly inspirational to my own style of bonsai.