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Published:
August 6th, 2008
Winners of Burnham's 'What's Brue'ing' photo competition are announced
 This
eye-catching photo of a group of bicycles in the River Brue has
been declared the winner of a competition to capture scenes of
Burnham and Hghbridge.
HaBA,
the Highbridge and Burnham Artists group, invited entries earlier
this year to mark the River Brue Visual Arts Festival, which was
held last week.
The photography competition, called 'What's Brue'ing', was open
to all non-professionals, who were able to enter up to three of
their favourite images of the river and its surroundings.
"We
had almost 90 entries and they were of a terrific standard, capturing
the spirit of Burnham and Highbridge," said Chris Abbott,
a local photographer who organised the contest.
 The
competition was won by Jackie Curtis for her image of the river
bicycles which was humourously entitled 'Tomorrow’s archaeology'.
Second
place went to Drew Lawrence for his atmospheric shot of Burnham
seafront called 'The Twilight Zone'. And third place was awarded
to Dave Hodgson for his image of 'The Nornen on Berrow Beach'.
The top 20 photos are pictured here.
Burnham's
Town crier Fred Smith and his wife, Shirley Smith, and Cllr Mike
Facey are pictured presenting Jackie Curtis and Drew Lawrence
with their prizes earlier this week.
Winning
entries are currently being displayed in shop windows and other
locations across Burnham and Highbridge until Friday August 8th
(as previously reported on Burnham-On-Sea.com).
Burnham
Chamber of Trade members agreed to support the event earlier this
year by framing and exhibiting the winning entries. And the event
was also boosted by financial support from the community fund
of Burnham county councillor Mike Facey.
Click
here to see the top 20 winning entries from this competition
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