FW Photo Competition 2025: Overall winner and runners-up crowned
The judges had a tough job whittling down the thousands of entries to our Photo Competition to just these images, selected from the top shots in each of the seven categories, revealed before Christmas.
Our winner of winners – twin lambs in the pen – captures a fleeting moment during the busy lambing season and reminds us to stop and look at the beauty all around.
The two runners-up shots give a humorous take on a rainy day at a ploughing match, and a golden glimpse of a hare in wheat field at sunset.
Congratulations to our winners – we hope you enjoy spending your prize money.
See also: See all the entries to our Photo Competition
Winner
Sleeping beauties
© Lisi Chidley
Taken by: Lisi Chidley | Category: Livestock
Lisi Chidley’s beautiful shot of her family farm’s first pair of twin lambs of 2025 wins our top prize of £300.
The judges praised the way the sleeping duo create a sense of warmth and emotional engagement, while the strong composition and shallow depth of field draw you into the lamb’s face.
The lambs, born soon after the family shifted from arable and dairy production to sheep, caught Lisi’s eye on a cold, wet day.
What struck her the most was how the two lambs seemed perfectly cosy, curled up together against the weather.
The farm, run by her parents, has 400 breeding Easycare ewes across 85ha (210 acres).
Twenty-one-year-old Lisi is the third generation on the Llyn Peninsula holding in North Wales.
She is studying law at university in nearby Bangor, but still finds time to help out morning and night with the sheep, and get stuck in at lambing time.
Excited for her win, Lisi says: “I’m very grateful. I’ve always had an interest in photography but only use my phone, so I might put the money towards a camera.”
Runner-up
Raindrops not falling on my head
© Jenny Schroeder
Taken by: Jenny Schroeder | Category: Vintage kit
When out one day at the Weald of Kent Ploughing Match near Headcorn, Jenny Schroeder spotted a vintage tractor with an umbrella shielding the driver from rain.
“It was such a clever way to stay dry,” she says.
Moments later, the clouds opened, soaking everyone else – but the tractor and its inventive driver stayed perfectly protected.
Farmer’s daughter and wife Jenny lives on the family farm in Kingswood, near Maidstone, Kent, where she and her husband grow Christmas trees.
The farm is about 80 acres and also provides caravan storage and storage units.
Jenny grew up on the family farm outside Trottiscliffe near Wrotham Heath, which had a milking herd, pigs and broiler chickens. “I used to clean out the cow shed for pocket money,” she says.
When she left school, she was keen to go on to study art. “I wanted to go to art college, but my mother didn’t think I could earn a living at painting.”
It wasn’t until years later, in her 40s and 50s, she finally got her wish to study at Canterbury.
“I now have a BA and an MA in Fine Art,” she says. It was the BA that developed her love of photography.
“I don’t do as much of it now with seven grandchildren,” admits Jenny, who takes all her photos on a triple lens iPhone. “The three cameras help!”
So what will she spend her £100 winnings on?
“I might take the family out for a meal,” she says.
“I exhibited a painting last year, but to win something like this is wonderful.”
Runner-up
Hare looking across the corner
© Hayden Phillips
Taken by: Hayden Phillips | Category: Young photographer
“I took this picture to inspire young photographers that we can do anything,” says 16-year-old Hayden Phillips.
He scoops £100 for his shot taken while camping near home in Hadleigh, Suffolk.
Hayden, who has been into photography since he was five, snapped the hare in wheat with his Canon EOS 200D.
“I used my 70-200mm lens so I could capture the details as they are such a quick animal.”
Currently studying photography at A-level, he adds: “Photography is by far my favourite subject as it allows me to connect with nature and the wildlife surrounding me.”
