Sky full of gannets, Shetland (Wendy Carlyle) - 2022 Photo Competition – Vote Now! (Self-Drive Category)

We’ve been lucky enough to receive thousands of photos from our clients’ adventures this year, so a big thank you to everyone who submitted a snapshot of their holiday for the competition.

After much deliberation, we’ve narrowed it down to our six favourite self-drive photos of 2022, but we now need your help to pick a winner! From the remote, volcanic Isle of Staffa to the otherworldly landscape of Glencoe, here are the travel moments that inspired us to keep discovering our home country.

Please help us choose the winner of our 2022 photo competition:

Hover over your favourite photo and click on the heart icon at the bottom-right
Scroll down and click ‘♥ vote for this photo’ underneath the image

The photographer with the most votes at midnight on Friday 30th December will win a canvas print of their winning shot. Happy voting!


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Title: Sky full of gannets, Shetland (Wendy Carlyle)

Author: Scott Smyth

Votes: 39

Category: Self-Drive Holidays

Views: ?

Description: A gannet colony on Shetland in Scotland's Northern Isles

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