24 Hours in Bristol winning pictures revealed

A photographer from Oxford who fell for the charms of Bristol on his first visit last year has scooped the top prize in the 24 Hours in Bristol 2014 photography competition.

Michael Fouracre travelled to Bristol last year to take part in the 2013 competition and won a prize for the best photograph taken in his hour, with a stunning image of the M-Shed cranes.  

He was so impressed by the city he returned for the 2014 competition, and captured this year’s winning photograph on his way to checking into his hotel for the competition weekend, not realising that one of the first images he took would win the overall first prize.

Fouracre received his prize at a ceremony in Bristol on Friday, before an exhibition of all the award-winning photographs opened at the weekend.

About 10,000 photographs were taken during the single 24-hour competition day over August Bank Holiday and 800 images featuring a day in the life of Bristol were entered into the competition.  

There were 80 prize-winners, 48 runners up and a number of highly commended images, which can be seen at the exhibition at the Harbourside Arts Centre, plus a giant banner print-out of all 800 images.

Fouracre said: “The photograph was captured in Corn Street, near St Nicolas Market. I spent quite a while with three buskers trying to get the image I had visualised. I wanted to capture the reflections of the beautiful buildings and include the busker’s expressive face without including my own reflection, which I just about managed.”

The images above show Fouracre and his winning image, plus second and third prize winners (see below for details). For the full set of winning images, visit the Bristol24/7 Facebook page. For more information about the competition, visit the 24 Hours in Bristol website.

The overall winners of the competition were

1ST PRIZE – ‘Bristol Buskers’ by Michael Fouracre from Oxford

– sponsored by Destination Bristol, Olympus and Adobe

(prize – £2,000 cash, a £1,000 Olympus PEN camera & a £600 Adobe editing package)

2ND PRIZE – ‘Bristol Sunrise 2’ by Philip Clark from Bristol

– sponsored by Spire ‘The Glen’ Hospital Bristol

(prize – £1,000 cash)

3RD PRIZE – ‘Observing Steel’ – by Joshua Perrett from Bristol

– sponsored by City Sightseeing Bristol

(prize – £500 cash)

Winners of the best photograph taken in each of the 24 hours of the competition were:

1200-1300 – Paul Smith – Time to Reflect  (Bath)

1300-1400 – Catarina Lourenco – Food Temptation at St Nicks (Oporto, Portugal)

1400-1500 – Dave Whitecliffe – The Point  (Bristol)

1500-1600 – Paul Smith – Colourful Bristol  (Bath)

1600-1700 – James Cossey – Magic Hour on the Docks (Sherborne, Dorset)

1700-1800 – Catarina Lourenco – Beginning of the End (Oporto, Portugal)

1800-1900 – Richard Perrin – Street Art Gallery (Fareham)

1900-2000 – Carolyn Eaton – Redcliffe Revealed (Bristol)

2000-2100 – Anas Akawi – The Skateboarder (Qatar)

2100-2200 – Matthew Alden – Peros Bridge & Harbourside (Bristol)

2200-2300 – Martin Urmson – Down the Pub (Salisbury)

2300-2400 – Dave Page – Playing with Fire (Bristol)

0000-0100 – Joshua Perrett – GTA Bristol (Bristol)

0100-0200 – Joshua Perrett – Graffiti Wars (Bristol)

0200-0300 – Darrell Jordan – Harbour Night (Aylesbury, Bucks)

0300-0400 – Adrian Warr – Reflecting on Contemporary Engineering (Bristol)

0400-0500 – Stanislav Mitura – John Cabot Night Watch (Bristol)

0500-0600 – Philip Clark – Bristol Asleep (Bristol)

0600-0700 – Daniel Andres – Colours of Hotwells (Bristol)

0700-0800 – Luke Palmer – Rise & Fall (Portishead)

0800-0900 – Helen Jones – Oscar Playing in Shy Fountain (Bristol)

0900-1000 – John Lewis – Hmmm (Gloucestershire)

1000-1100 – Sue Beavis – Stepping Up (Bristol)

1100-1200 – Don Norris – Sounds of Love Page Sixteen (Bristol)

The winners of the Bristol Water Prize for best photographs of Bristol’s waterways and water wildlife were:

1st prize – Stuart Lees – Ugly Duckling (£500 prize)

2nd prize – Jehan Shaw – Sunrise over Nethen Weir (£100 prize)

3rd prize – Julie Kaye – Journey Under Bristol Bridge (£100 prize)

Mayor’s prize

Ivo Barbosa from Oporto in Portugal for his black and white photograph ‘Licentiae’.

Destination Bristol prize to feature photographs on the front covers of the 2015 visitor guides, plus a cash prize

– James Cossey from Sherborne, Dorset) for ‘Magic Hour on the Docks’ (VisitBristol Guide – approx 360,000 printed)

– Caroline Storvik from Bristol for ‘Dawn’ (Conference & Venues Guides – approx 2,500 printed)