Last night the UK’s top travel magazine, Wanderlust, announced the winners of its Travel Photographer of the Year. I survived two rounds of judging to be whittled down from 8,000 entrants and was a finalist in the Portfolio category with five images taken in Inle Lake, Myanmar. The exhibition was held at Earls Court in London as part of the Destinations travel show.

Alas, no cigar or silly hat for me this year but it was great to be in the final along with some immensely talented photographers. I was unable to attend the awards so my cousin who is based in London went along for the free wine…oh, and to take a couple of snaps. Thank you, Emma.

Interesting to note that Wanderlust still refuses to accept the official name of the country and changed Myanmar to Burma on my image descriptions. Even the UN now acknowledges the name Myanmar, as of course do the entire population of the country.

I spent five days in Yangon, or Rangoon if you are of the colonial era mindset,  last week in a fabulous frenzy of food photography and will post images once I catch up with the backlog of other recent trips.