Appearing for the first time at this Show (on the RNLI’s stand N030B), the overall and category winners photographs give visitors to the Collins Stewart Boat Show a unique snapshot into the training and rescue work of RNLI volunteer lifeboat crew and lifeguards, as witnessed by them. Entries to the competition have been submitted by RNLI volunteer lifeboat crew members and RNLI lifeguards and document the work of the lifesaving charity.

The overall winning photograph was taken by Bobby Renaud, an RNLI lifeguard from Cornwall and shows a lifeguard based at Treyarnon beach, Cornwall battling through the surf on an Arancia inshore rescue boat during a training exercise in the summer of 2007.

Now in its second year, the RNLI Pentax Photographer of the Year competition was developed to document the rescue work of the lifesaving charity. All RNLI lifeboat stations in the UK and Ireland are equipped with digital waterproof Pentax cameras to enable appropriate real-time, high quality images of their life-saving activities to be captured.

Left: This year’s overall winning photograph by
Bobby Renaud