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After eight qualifying rounds we asked you to select the BBC News website's Photographer of the Year. You chose Veronica Carter's picture of 'Squabbling Terns'. Veronica Carter now wins the chance to shoot a story on a subject of her choice for BBC News.

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'Brothers' by Arkadiusz Dziczek came in second place.

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'My son' by Phil Charnock came a close third.

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'Shadow' by Andrew Fleetwood came fourth. The following entries appear in alphabetical order.

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'Burano' by Euan Cartwright

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'Blue gate' by Sheila Curzon

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'Indian dreamer' by Angela M Ferreira

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'The Conversation' by Bob Given

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'Untitled' by Maxine Khan

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'Taking flight' by Tony Larcombe

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'Happy boys' by Tom Soper

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'Old age' by Urszula Zwardon.