Shot of the Year 2025 Winners
Every month we choose one photo from our students as our ‘Shot of the month’. This is based on the amount of engagement their photo gets, together with our judgment here at The School of Photography. Having put all of these shots together, we then have a final ‘Shot of the Year’ vote, and the results are in!
We added all the pictures to our Instagram feed and created a Facebook Gallery showcasing all the photos. We then asked you, our members, viewers and readers, to scroll through and show some love to the pictures you felt were most deserving of ‘Shot of the Year’.
We had some incredible submissions last year, but of course there can only be two winners
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The Prizes
There were two prizes up for grabs:
The People’s Vote
Whichever photo gets the most likes in total will win the peoples vote.
TSOP’s Vote
Us at The School of Photography together with our pro photography colleagues will decided on the TSOP Vote. Check out our pro photography courses here.
Each winner will both receive a year’s membership to TSOP and a signed copy of our book, worth £212!
WINNER - THE PEOPLE’S CHOICE
2025 offered us some incredible photography, ranging from landscapes to wildlife. This year’s ‘People’s Choice Winner’ really did standout, and received a fantastic response from you all! Your choice of 2025’s ‘Shot Of The Year’ went to…
© Ken Childs • f/11 • 2 min • ISO 100 •
Congratulations to Ken Childs.
Ken told us that on a recent trip to Maldon Beach huts he had taken a long exposure and finished it off with some background blending in Photoshop. It seemed you all Loved the beach huts as there was an outstanding amount of votes. Well done Ken, we will be in touch shortly to arrange your prizes!
WINNER - TSOP’S VOTE
Which brings us to our next and final winner of TSOP’s ‘Shot Of The Year 2025’; TSOP’s vote. Here at The School of Photography, we reviewed all of the entries and decided on our favourite. A huge congratulations to…
© Ian McMichael
We loved this picture by Ian, it really is spectacular! Ian Wrote, “This is probably the best I'll manage, but I've shot a lot of Astro this week. Lots. Not a massive amount of sleep, maybe 5 hours a night. Experimenting with reflections, textures and different compositions. Saturday night, I had an amazing night. Crystal clear skies, near perfect conditions. I did a self portrait. But Sunday I tried something more challenging and decided to take my dog along. Trying to get him to stand or sit still for the 2 second exposure was a task in itself. There was an enormous amount of haze and high altitude clouds to cope with. I did get a small window around midnight to get my sky images after spending around 90 minutes trying to get the shot of me and Rocky. A large container of chicken was consumed in the process. Thoroughly happy with this result and no doubt it'll be on a wall somewhere in the house.”
A huge congratulations to you, Ian! We will be in touch shortly to arrange your prizes.
Well done again to both our winners. The competition in 2025 brought some excellent pictures and well done to all that submitted their photos. We look forward to seeing what 2025 brings.
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The Photos
Below were the entrees for Shot of the Year 2025. Which one was your favourite? Let us know in the comments below.
A huge thank you from the TSoP Team!
We are extremely proud of our members and impressed by all the images that were submitted. As you can imagine, it was super hard choosing from the 12 Finalists. We thoroughly enjoyed looking through all the fantastic images and are excited to see even more fantastic photography in 2026!
