A photographer from Llandrindod Wells will have one of her photographs featured in the FUW calendar for 2025.

Jamie Smart's photograph is one of 12 brilliant nature shots featured in the popular calendar.

Jamie's snap was taken in the Elan Valley.

The FUW 2025 annual calendar image entries were recently sorted and judged. Budding photographers from all over Wales had submitted their best images for consideration.

A wonderful family image of North Country Cheviot sheep pictured underneath a budding tree took the overall top prize.

Emily Jones from Penuwch is delighted that her winning image will be featured on the front cover of the FUW’s 2025 calendar, which will be available free of charge from FUW’s county offices and at the Royal Welsh Winter Fair on November 24 and 25.

The top prize of £250 will be presented to Emily on the first day of the Winter Fair with the 11 other photographers’ entries featured on the 2025 calendar named, sent a bilingual copy and an FUW beanie hat.

FUW President Ian Rickman said: “The competition has proven extremely popular yet again this year and I was delighted to look through over 100 entries of wonderful rural images. The standard was high and it was no easy task dwindling them down to just 12.

“I think we’ve captured the very best of what rural Wales has to offer, from cute looking miniature donkeys and piglets, a highland cow profile for March with a stunningly detailed close up of a hare face for the beginning of the year to a pink sunset in rural Wales.

“This year we’ve awarded a drone image of machinery at work for October, a traditional hand shearing competition features in August ending with an eerie winter wonderland image near an estuary to end the year. The calendar encapsulates the calendar months and some striking, colourful and atmospheric images.

“This competition has highlighted that farming matters to all of us in one way or another and our Welsh family farms are vital as food producers, countryside stewards, wildlife supporters, technical innovators and vital to safeguard traditional skillsets.”

“Congratulations to all the winners and thank you for taking the time to capture these images, for showcasing farming and our wonderful countryside in such a skilled way,” added Mr Rickman.

The calendars will be available from your local county office and from the FUW stand at the Royal Welsh Winter Fair.

This isn't the first taste of success behind the lens for Jamie Smart.

Last year, at just eight years old, Jamie became the youngest ever winner at the RSPCA Young Photographer Awards 2023.

The awards have been running for more than 30 years, with Jamie’s image last year winning the overall top spot.

Further success came this year when Jamie won the under 12 category in the British Wildlife Photography Awards.