Valerie Cook's picture of her back garden - winner of our 'normal life' competition
News blog would like to thank the 70-plus people from all over the world who sent in more than 100 photographs of "normal life" for our competition, which we unveiled a couple of weeks ago.
The competition was inspired by Karen, an award-winning magazine created by graphics designer Karen Lubbock. The magazine has been described as a "white knuckle ride of the mundane" and tries to capture little moments and emotions from our humdrum lives.
Lubbock has scrutinised all of the entries and picked out Valerie Cook's photograph of her back garden as her favourite, and she scoops our prize, a copy of issue two of Karen.
It was a tough choice, Lubbock says, but Ms Cook's photograph was the one that stayed most in her mind. Lubbock says:
It has been wonderful looking through all of these images and seeing all of the great variety of things that people notice. There are lots of aspects about the garden photograph that I like. I like how it does not seem perfect or contrived. It is a scene which she has probably seen countless times but you get a sense of how she must keep getting something new from it. I like the mark/raindrop on the window - or is it on the camera lens? I like the condensation on the greenhouse windows, the bits and pieces in the garden, the trellising, the partial view of the neighbour's garden ... The photograph makes me ask questions ... there's lots there to look at.
Thanks again to everyone who sent us their photographs. Below is a selection of some of the other images Karen particularly liked.
Sewing machine by Janet Scott
Toast by Gary May
Sofa by Dawn Waldron
Fished by Swizzz
Pigeons by Caroline Lester
A dog spotted on my run by Sarah Phillips
