Harvest 2022 photo competition: Some of the best entries

Thanks to everyone who entered the 2022 Harvest Photography Competition. Your pictures captured a real sense of this summer’s harvest.

Here is a selection that impressed ahead of next week when we will be unveiling the winner.

See also: Hundreds of photos of harvest 2022

Andrew Greenwood

© Andrew Greenwood

Night descends, but the work continues – in this case, a Claas Lexion 8900 with a 45ft header harvesting wheat at GH Parkers (North Coats) in Lincolnshire. The moment was seen through the lens of Andrew Greenwood.

Eleanor Gilbert

© Eleanor Gilbert

Eleanor Gilbert shared this image of combining Zyatt winter wheat in Berkshire. Pulling the grain trailer is something you won’t see very often – a black John Deere 6155R.

Derek Bell

© Derek Bell

Baling under way at Withcall in Lincolnshire. On some slopes the task isn’t one for the faint-hearted, says Derek Bell, who snapped the image.

Kevin Rogers

© Kevin Rogers

“All done and dusted” is what Kevin Rogers calls this one, showing the task of cleaning a combine at the end of the season.

Tom Willis

© Tom Willis

Tom Willis caught this moment, sat at the top of the grain heap after hauling the fans up ready to cool the grain down, when the ambient temperature dropped later in the day. Beyond the Loadall in the foreground is the Vale of York and the Dales. 

Peter Niblock

© Peter Niblock

Combine operator James Adams harvesting oats overlooking Belfast Lough, Northern Ireland. Thanks to Peter Niblock for the image.

Luke Amos

© Luke Amos

Dust was something most people involved with harvest ’22 will have been well acquainted with – and Luke Amos, who took this on the Fasque Estate near St Cyrus in Scotland, gave his picture the simple but very apt title: “Dusty work”.

Lizzie Best

© Lizzie Best

Lizzie Best captured this shot of the combine chasing the last rays of the sun as it sets on the final day of harvest in Rutland.