Amateur snappers develop a winning talent for Irish Examiner Readers’ Photography Competition

For the past few weeks, photographic experts at the Irish Examiner have been pouring over thousands of images submitted last year by our snap-happy readers.

Entries to the annual Readers’ Photography Competition have skyrocketed in recent years, but the quality of submissions has also increased, according to visual media manager Jim Coughlan. Choosing an overall winner was a daunting prospect, he said.

“We’ve had about 5,000 entries this year and the quality of the pictures has just gone through the roof, it’s great,” he says.