October's Star Witness winner shows Shropshire nature reserve in full glory
This atmospheric image of a nature reserve near Newport has won a budding Shropshire photographer our Star Witness of the month prize for October.
Waldemar Chmielewski, of Hadley, Telford, snapped the picture at Aqualate Mere National Nature Reserve, near Newport. The photo shows the woodland reflecting off the open water at the park, which supports a diverse fish population, in particular pike and bream and large number of wintering and breeding wildfowl.
Waldemar wins £100 for his trouble after being picked out as a picture of the month by the Shropshire Star's internet editor Ian Harvey.
You can look at our online picture galleries, and submit your own images, at shropshirestar.com/starwitness
There will be plenty of opportunities for striking photographs this weekend.
Like the day Waldemar visited the nature reserve, the weather is turning cold, sunny and crisp again.
Temperatures that were in double figures in the middle of the week were this weekend dropping to a more seasonable level for this time of year, with the chance of frost in some areas of the county.
