Glasgow Men Snap Up Top Two Tattoo Prizes

An impressive photograph of a re-enactment of The 79th Highlanders repelling French Cavalry at Waterloo has been judged the best pictorial moment of the 2001 Tattoo in a competition run by the show organisers last summer.

Craig Bryce, a Glasgow College Education Manager, from the Scottish commuter railway town of Lenzie, scooped the top award and £500 for his prize-winning shot in the twelfth annual Tattoo photographic contest.

Competition Judges, former Scotsman Picture Editor, Stewart Boyd, Photography Lecturer and former official Tattoo Photographer, Brian Swinburne, along with Mark Owens, the Official Army in Scotland and Edinburgh Tattoo Photographer, examined some 250 entries submitted by visitors from 12 countries before agreeing on a winner.

"We were looking for pictures which evoked something of the atmosphere and excitement of the Tattoo", revealed Mr Swinburne.

£250 and second place went to retired Engineer, Jack Stewart, another resident of Lenzie near Glasgow, for his colourful photograph of the Russian Cossack State Song and Dance Ensemble in action.

Mr Stewart took third place in the Tattoo's 1998 photo contest while his wife Janet has successfully secured an award as a finalist in the 2001 competition.

Runner-up, Texan Kelly Rider from Austin, received £150 for her striking shot of some of the Military's finest drummers slowly beating time during a musical and marching display.

Highly Commended, Commended and Finalist prizes were also awarded as follows:-

Highly Commended: Mr Duncan McEwan, Renfrewshire, Glasgow Mr N de Veill, Chilworth, Surrey Mr V R W Shepherd, Wakefield, West Yorkshire

Commended: Mr Roger Busbridge, Horley, Surrey Mr I J Dean, Castle Bromwich, Birmingham Ms Heidi Nygaard, Oslo, Norway

Finalist: Mrs Janet Stewart, Lenzie, Glasgow Ms Janet Morrison, Sidcup, Kent Mr Simon Pink, Edinburgh

All winners receive two tickets for this year's Tattoo, a presentation certificate and a mounted enlargement of their prize entry.

It is anticipated that an exhibition of the winners' photographs will be held before this year's event (2-24 August 2002), when there will be another opportunity to win cash prizes worth £900.