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Digital Camera World - Celebrating The Long Shadow

Digital Camera World wrote a piece celebrating the success of 'The Long Shadow' which has won several awards in 2025 and 2026.

Published 24 November 2025

The article states:

"Discover the story behind one of the most celebrated aerial images in 2025 and the gear that, even in challenging conditions, has never let the winner down.

Soaring above the misty landscape on the first day of meteorological spring, a compact DJI Air 2S drone captured a moment so atmospheric and fleeting that it went on to win two major awards.

Bathed in warm sunrise light and framed by a cloud inversion, Christopher Harrison's photograph The Long Shadow has become one of 2025's most celebrated drone images.

That blend of light, atmosphere, and elevation – only possible from above – secured Harrison the Drone category win at the British Photography Awards (BPA) 2025. Just days before BPA announced its winners, Harrison also secured first place in the Nature category at the Drone Photo Awards 2025 – part of the globally renowned Siena Awards."

A solitary small group of trees casts a long dark shadow across a fog-covered arable field on the slopes of Brightwell Barrow, near the Wittenham Clumps in Oxfordshire, as low winter sunrise strikes horizontally through the mist. The aerial perspective reduces the scene to near-pure geometry: a diagonal line of darkness dividing cold blue shadow from warm amber light. The tree reads as both subject and instrument, the agent producing the image's central tension.
A solitary small group of trees casts a long dark shadow across a fog-covered arable field on the slopes of Brightwell Barrow, near the Wittenham Clumps in Oxfordshire, as low winter sunrise strikes horizontally through the mist. The aerial perspective reduces the scene to near-pure geometry: a diagonal line of darkness dividing cold blue shadow from warm amber light. The tree reads as both subject and instrument, the agent producing the image's central tension. Buy this print →

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A solitary small group of trees casts a long dark shadow across a fog-covered arable field on the slopes of Brightwell Barrow, near the Wittenham Clumps in Oxfordshire, as low winter sunrise strikes horizontally through the mist. The aerial perspective reduces the scene to near-pure geometry: a diagonal line of darkness dividing cold blue shadow from warm amber light. The tree reads as both subject and instrument, the agent producing the image's central tension. Award winner×6
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