SNOW and ice “played havoc” with the Quantock Hills AONB and Duke of Edinburgh Award Photo Competition schedule.

Judging had to be delayed until March 21 – but the results are now in.

Chris Edwards and Katy Coate, both of Quantock Hills AONB, Jeff Brown from Duke of Edinburgh Award and Matt Bowen from Taunton Leisure, convened at Fyne Court and spent the morning looking at the 100-plus images entered.

There were four categories – two with straight winners and two that had so many entries of such quality that there were winners and two runners up for each.

AONB manager Chris Edwards said: “This year’s judging was even harder than last year – the quality is so high and people’s desire to capture the spectacular beauty of the Quantocks along with more intimate, smaller-scale images of moments and detail is inspiring.

“I thank all the entrants for again reminding us why it is so important to protect and enhance the natural beauty of these hills.”

Prizes will be from Taunton Leisure and the winning and runner-up images will printed onto canvas.

All the images are being exhibited in the music room at Fyne Court, Broomfield, until tomorrow (Saturday April 8). Admission free.

Winners were:

Best landscape image, Sally Pryde with ‘Sunset at Bicknoller Post’, runners up Ian Sherlock ‘View over Quantock Vale’ and Dawn Mahoney ‘Time to Reflect’, taken in Kilve; best expedition image, Robert Blake School; ‘Loving the Great Outdoors’, Dawn Mahoney ‘Quantock Fling’; runners-up Marcin Jankowski’s mountain biking from Wills Neck and Kimberly Gray ‘pony and toddler’.

Winner of the best film category was James Marshall with his atmospheric film talking about the Quantock Hills and its importance to him.