CCC member David Townshend has won first prize in the Abstract Views category of the International Garden Photographer of the Year competition 16 with ‘Abandon Hope’. 

David’s description for the image explains the title: ‘Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.’  In this image I see the circles within circles in Dante’s Inferno.  It was created in my garden from a bug hotel, using in-camera image blending.

More of David’s successful IGPOTY images can be seen on his website.