The Photo Times: The best of Man"s Best Friend: Award-winning photographs show dogs of all ...

Pictures were picked from 8,000 submissions for Kennel Club’s annual Dog Photographer of a Year Competition

Roger Sjolstad from Norway

selected as altogether leader with enterprising image

of a immature lady and a Great Dane

Held annually, a foe is open to both professionals and amateurs, immature and old, from all around a world

By

Amanda Williams

PUBLISHED:

16:36, 16 Oct 2013

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UPDATED:

17:53, 16 Oct 2013

Standing loyally by their master’s side, tirelessly during work in a fields, or bounding by rivers with all a appetite of a puppy, these images constraint a unequivocally best of Man’s Best Friend.

The array of cinema were picked from roughly 8,000 submissions for a Kennel

Clubâ€™s annual Dog Photographer of a Year Competition.

Roger Sjolstad from Norway has been comparison as a altogether leader of a foe with his enterprising design of a immature lady and a Great Dane using by water, that was a leader of a â€˜Manâ€™s Best Friendâ€™ category.

Speaking about winning a biggest dog photography foe in a world, Mr Sjolstad said: ‘The sketch is of a 10 year aged daughter, Tea with a dog Robbie and was taken during a lake nearby a home outward of Oslo.

A girl

A girl’s best friend: Roger Sjolstad from Norway clinched initial esteem as a altogether leader of a foe with this witty design of his daughter Tea and Great Dane Roger using by water, that was a leader of a ‘Man’s Best Friend’ category

Catch! An irascible Border Collie held mid-jump by Richard Shore from Cardiff, who won a

Catch! An irascible Border Collie held mid-jump by Richard Shore from Cardiff, who won a ‘Dogs during Play’ difficulty with this beautifully timed design

I’m a trainer turn here: Stern looking German Shepherd military dog Harry nuzzles a disturbed looking Archie a puppy on his initial day home in this touching design by Simon Reynolds – curtain adult in a puppy category

Spot a dog: The leader of a sixteen and underneath category,

Spot a dog: The leader of a sixteen and underneath category, ‘I Love Dogs Because’, was 9 year aged Katie Davies with her unique, artistic and laughable sketch of her Miniature Schnauzer and Pomeranian stealing among a towering of soothing toys

‘This print was positively not planned, my mother asked me to pierce my camera to take a few shots of a dog swimming.

‘My immature Dane had never been nearby H2O before this evening, so we was utterly astounded when he took off into a H2O and he only ran, ran, ran!

‘He unequivocally enjoyed a water.

‘Tea assimilated him and together they started using towards a seaside and there we was with my camera â€“ during a right place during a right time.

‘I have always found photography unequivocally interesting, we had a darkroom in a groundwork by a age of twelve though it unequivocally took off a few years ago when we hereditary 3 Great Danes and we now mix my biggest interests: dogs and photography.’

The foe has 6 categories: Portrait, Manâ€™s Best Friend; Dogs At Play; Dogs At Work; and we Love Dogs Because â€“ a difficulty privately for those aged 16 and under, and Puppy.

The other difficulty winners were: Richard Shore from Cardiff, who won a â€˜Dogs during Playâ€™ difficulty with a beautifully timed design of a Border Collie jumping; Susan Stone Amport from Switzerland, whose sketch of a Pointer contrasted opposite secure fields won â€˜Dogs At Workâ€™; Ali Trew from Fingringhoe, Essex, who won a â€˜Puppyâ€™ difficulty with an darling design of her Hungarian Vizsla puppy; and Philip Watts from Radstock, Somerset, who won a â€˜Dog Portraitâ€™ difficulty with a confidant tighten adult of a Cocker Spaniel.

On a prowl: Dogs At Work leader Susan Stone Amport from Switzerland, whose sketch of a Pointer contrasted opposite secure fields wowed a judges

In his master

In his master’s shadow: Jon Hawkins also tender as curtain adult in a dog during work foe with this design of warning Pointer/Labrador gun dog Fundi tough during work on an estate in West Sussex

What are we looking at? A tough looking Bull Mastiff opposite sleet capped plateau warranted Mark Molloy curtain adult second curtain adult in a mural category

The leader of a sixteen and underneath category, â€˜I Love Dogs Becauseâ€¦â€™, was 9 year aged Katie Davies with her unique, artistic and laughable sketch of her Miniature Schnauzer and Pomeranian stealing among a towering of soothing toys.

Katie pronounced voiced an seductiveness in photography during a immature age and motionless to spend her birthday income on a camera.

She stoical a design though any assistance and a formula pronounce for themselves.

Speaking about her win, Katie said: ‘I am happy and vehement to have won a foe and when we grow adult we would like to turn a pet photographer.’

Her esteem for winning a â€˜I Love Dogs Becauseâ€¦â€™ difficulty includes a personalised dog photography day with endowment winning veteran photographer, Andy Biggar.

Let leaping dogs fly: 14-year-old Miriam Jiagbogu held her enterprising companion only in time to bind

Let leaping dogs fly: 14-year-old Miriam Jiagbogu held her enterprising companion only in time to bind ‘I adore dogs because…’ curtain up, a difficulty privately for those aged 16 and under

I’m prepared for my close-up: Abbie Lee, from Bristol, captures a toothy laugh of her Airdale terrier for a runner’s adult esteem in a ‘I adore Dogs because…’ category

You going to finish that? Man

You going to finish that? Man’s best crony curtain adult Andrew Freeth snaps a parched looking Weimaraner in a drink garden in Bristol

Puppy love: Claudia Tolini, curtain adult in a man

Puppy love: Claudia Tolini, curtain adult in a man’s best crony difficulty captures an adoring demeanour and a touching impulse between master and Labrador in Valfabbrica, Italy

It’s a trimming game: Rhian White’s curtain adult design in a puppies difficulty of 4-month aged Coco excitedly bounding after a football on Lancing beach in March

Be some-more dog!: The photograph, taken by Mary Wilde from Matlock, captures her Coton Du Tulear

Be some-more dog!: The photograph, taken by Mary Wilde from Matlock, captures her Coton Du Tulear’s mouth far-reaching open, adult on dual legs perplexing to locate a hulk snowball

He assimilated photographer and artist, Jo Longhurst and Kennel Club Chairman and Chief Executive, Steve Dean and Rosemary Smart to decider a foe alongside dog lovers Kat Smith-Ward and Paul Finch, a people behind O2â€™s Be More Dog campaign.

One design struck both Paul and Kat and was awarded a special â€˜Be More Dog Mentionâ€™.

Ms Smith-Watd explained: ‘We came opposite an design of a dog personification in a sleet and suspicion now that this embodied a Be More Dog campaign.

‘The photograph, taken by Mary Wilde from Matlock, captures her Coton Du Tulearâ€™s mouth far-reaching open, adult on dual legs perplexing to locate a hulk snowball. It’s accurately a form of poise we adore from dogs who, by their unequivocally nature, aren’t fearful to try new things and have fun.

‘It encapsulates a debate beautifully.’

All of a winning images will be on arrangement via Londonâ€™s heading dog event, Discover Dogs that takes place during Earls Court on 9th and 10th November.