AN eight-year-old budding photographer from Princetown is celebrating after winning her age category in the Devon Air Ambulance Trust calendar competition for 2014.

Alex Kinsey's beautiful image of Vixen Tor will feature on the September page of the calendar.

Alex was presented with a canvas of her picture at the recent DAAT fun day at Darts Farm, Exeter.

An even larger part of her prize was a photo workshop for the whole of her year at  Tavistock's Kelly College Prep School, run by Plymouth – based photographer Russell Soper of 'Camera Kids' who runs minimal-cost photo workshops for school groups in the wider Plymouth area.

Observation was the key skill within the photo workshop, the Year 4 pupils being tasked by Russell Soper to take cameras out and spot the letters of the alphabet formed by what they could see around them, as well as composing still-life images in a studio.

They learned about camera handling, with a wide range of cameras to examine, and to learn a little about the history of photography.

The calendar will raise funds for the DAAT service, so often invaluable in the Dartmoor and West Devon area.

Priced £5 it is available via the DAAT website at http://www.daat.org">www.daat.org