July's photo of the month competition has been and gone, with Marcus Crompton's shot of Eilean Donan carrying off the prize. Still, if you fancy keeping your feet warm and dry inside 5 pairs of Bridgedale socks, there's another chance to bag the Trekkers this month. As before, whichever photo gets the most votes wins the prize.
Last month's winning photo - a very atmospheric sunset over a fairy-lit castle - set the standard. Here are some more recent contenders in this month's competition.
Oliver Preece has been in some of the world's scarier places. Not only is this photo all rock, snow and cloud, but his Alps 2005 album includes pictures of intimidating locations like the North face of the Matterhorn. If anyone's up for a challenge, see if you can find some green in his album:-)
Matterhorn, Dent d'Herens & Ober Gabelhorn, by Oliver Preece
Marcus Crompton spent his first few days of life as OM's top photographer in the Pyrenees. As usual, he's returned with a new roll of film, or rather a new online album, called Pyrenean holiday. If you like sunny, vegetated valleys, this one might suit you a little better than Oliver's Alps 2005 album.
Descending from Port De Colomers, by Marcus Crompton
Neil Higgins has done his usual trick of uploading several stunning images of the Lakes, and making it almost impossible for us to choose between them. In the end, we went for this one of 'Little Langdale' - it might not be quite on the scale of the Pyrenees or the Alps, but it just goes to show you don't need high mountains to make a great photo. There are plenty more Lakeland images in his Lakeland Memories Part 1 album, one of which we featured in last week's gallery round-up. Jon raved about the photos on that occasion, but forgot to mention that there's also a wonderful picture of himself dressed as Santa in the album. Take a peep:-)
Little Langdale, by Neil Higgins
Michael Sayles has recently become another regular in the gallery, and his album, photos by Michael S grows by the week. His latest photo is this unearthly shot of Skye wreathed in cloud, with some good old seaweed for foreground interest. It's not surprising that his album contains this month's leading image, of The Storr, currently with 24 votes. That's a pretty healthy lead, but watch this space anyway ...
Skye over Sleat, by Michael Sayles
While we're on professional photos, there's nothing red about this picture of Red Pike but it's very alluring anyway. To complement the atmospheric black and white, the Steve Walton Images album is full of colourful UK landscapes, including Buttermere at its most luminous. You almost need your sunglasses:-)
Red Pike, by Steve Walton
Back to the Alps for a last peep before close of play, as it's Alpine season. It looks like Ben Wilmott was definitely still on the path when he paused to take this photo - always reassuring. See his Collection album for some more fine views, both Alpine and Cumbrian.
Shreckhorn, by Ben Wilmott
And today's sunset comes from John Cameron, whose Lochaber album is full of different states of light. If you want to see sunrise, sunset, and snowfall on Ben Nevis then look no further...
Sunset at Roshven...near Glenuig, by John Cameron
