Mullingar photographer collects top prize

Mullingar photographer, Colin Watters - one of the Westmeath Examiner"s regular snappers - was winner of a top award at the RTE Weather Photo Competition 2008 awards.Colin, pictured above with weather presenter Ursula Bracken, wowed the judges with his vibrant image of a commuter train passing Magee Point on the shore of Lough Owel.The shot won him the overall prize for the spring season and featured on RTÉ Weather broadcasts as well as the RTÉ Weather Photo Calendar 2009 circulated with the RTÉ Guide.The RTÉ Weather Photo Competition has been running successfully since the winter of 2002 and year on year RTÉ receives hundreds of beautiful photographs from all over Ireland featuring different seasons, views and subjects.