Photo of The Week Competition 6th December 2024

The winning image for the weather and landscape photo of the week competition on the 6th December 2024, plus the best of the rest.

Mark Boardman

06 Dec 2024 — 4 min read

This was a particularly tough week to pick an outright winner, but ultimately Kath's fantastic capture in the Outer Hebrides won first place.

Kath's stunning image has earned her a 3-month StormHour membership, which also includes a members spotlight page.
Watch out for next week's competition on StormHour Bluesky, Monday morning, with a fog and mist theme!

Thank you to everyone who took part and it's great to see so many people joining the Bluesky community.

The Winner!

Looks like it could be in the Caribbean or some tropical island, but this is Luskentyre Beach, South Harris in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Blue skies, a long white sandy beach & beautiful turquoise sea.
Fantastic winning image by ‪Kath’s travels‬ ‪@kathstravels.bsky.social

In second place is this beach in a Canadian Winter. An ice volcano formed at Presqu'ile Park beach in Ontario by ‪Davesphotos‬ ‪@davesadventures.bsky.social‬

And in third place we have this lagoon beach in Jokulsarlon Iceland strewn with trapped icebergs by ‪Lyndy Lambert‬ ‪@lyndyphotos.bsky.social‬

The Best of the Rest

(In no particular order)

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Moon above the beautiful beach at Morfjord on the Lofoten islands during polar night by ‪Michael Pfeiffer‬ ‪@wetter-ludwigsburg.de

Nature's wonderful patterns. These are beach cusps, very unusual. The best UK example is this one at Man O'War beach in Dorset by ‪Peter Lewis‬ ‪@peterlewis55.bsky.social‬

My favorite beach - southern Oregon coast by ‪Anna Sereno‬ ‪@annasereno.bsky.social

Isle of Harris Scotland by @gerdoc1.bsky.social‬ ‪

Wellfleet, Cape Cod, MA
The dunes are astounding, the awe is jaw-dropping, every single day by ‪Claire Zoe‬ ‪@lightandlife.bsky.social‬

Last light reflections at low tide. Caroline Bay, Te Waipounamu, Aotearoa | South Island, New Zealand by ‪Allisonwonderland‬ ‪@lucys-tearoom.bsky.social‬

Mt. Fuji and Pacific Ocean by ‪Miya115‬ ‪@miya1156.bsky.social

Ocean City, MD at the inlet by ‪Michelle Barnett‬ ‪@its2l-michelle.bsky.social

Our local beach at Newport Sands, Pembrokeshire, Wales by ‪Banc-yr-Eithin Hideaways, Pembrokeshire‬ ‪@bancyreithin.bsky.social

Montana De Oro State Beach in Los Osos, California, south of Morro Rock/Bay. You can see Morro Rock off in the distance by ‪Alina 💙🟧🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦😷‬ ‪@alinagrafik.bsky.social‬

Hopewell Rocks on the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick, Canada. I took this photo at low tide in 2008. High tides here can be as high as 16 meters. Sadly, some of the nearby Rocks collapsed in 2016 and 2022. By ‪Lyndy Lambert‬ ‪@lyndyphotos.bsky.social

Thunder Cove Beach , PEI 🇨🇦 featuring the “teacup” that was swept out to sea four months later during Fiona. The red sands & soils of PEI are truly extraordinary. By ‪My Happy Place‬ ‪@goodnrg.bsky.social‬