Photo of the month: Jack, Leeds
A new month has just begun and that means our photo competition of January on “Winter” has come to an end. We would like to thank all participants for paying so much attention to your surroundings looking for the perfect snapshot – and sharing your best ones with us. We will announce the winner of the amazing Aluminium Print 18″x12″ soon.
Prepare yourselves for our new challenge: Food Photography! 
If you did not find the perfect image to take a picture of in January, you are getting another chance now on a completely different theme. Get ready and flick through your cookery books in order to find the most appetizing food! If you find a suitable receipt, go shopping to buy all ingredients and invite your family and friends. Have fun preparing or cooking the food together, take a mouth-watering picture of it and enter our photo competition.
Your advantages: You have delicious food to enjoy with your family and friends after taking a picture of it
AND you can win a brilliant Pixum Photo Book large landscape with photo paper! All participants get two free* 8″ gloss posters. So don’t wait any longer: start cooking your favourite food and share its photo with us – we look forward to receiving attractive pictures
Thank you for all your entries! The theme “Winter” really provided us with stunning pictures. You can view all entries here:
http://www.pixum.co.uk/viewalbum/id/5979252
The winner for Janaury is:
Congratulations to Carl Haynes! You have won an Aluminium Print 18″x12″!
We hope you’ll enjoy your prize and take part in our future competitions as well!
Best wishes,
Your Pixum team

There were some great sunsets near where I live during January and when the frost set in I knew I would have to do my best to get a good winter scene photo.
Christopher, Dumfries

This photograph was taken with a Fuji Finepix S5700 when I was out walking in my local park last winter. The lake in the park was frozen and pieces of sheet ice had broken off at the edge. I held a piece up to the sky and discovered some lovely colours. I had to photograph quickly as the ice soon began to melt and cold water started to trickle up my arm!
The only alteration I have made to the image is to add a grey key line border.
Jo, Helston