Many thanks to all you who entered this year's competition, and congratulations to the three winners.

A remarkable shot of the old town in Nice won Justin Hannaford the first prize.Coincidentally, Justin, who is from Adelaide, Australia, took the photo while on a trip to Nice, which he won in a short-story competition. An investment banker by day, Justin has had a few photos published but says it would be his dream to work full-time as a professional photographer.

He fulfilled this year's competition brief to produce an outstanding image that managed to capture the essence of a destination. His prize is a commission, worth £3,000, to photograph a foreign destination for one of Insight Guide's prestigious new guidebooks.

Adam Patterson won the second prize for his shot taken in a temple in Angkor, while Vanessa Warren took third place for her photograph taken in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. They win £1,000 and £500 vouchers for photographic equipment respectively.

Our thanks should also go to this year's judges, who were Brian Bell, Insight Guides' Editorial Director, Peter Noble, a Trustee and Council member of the Royal Photographic Society, and Sophie Battersby, Associate Picture Editor of The Independent on Sunday.