AWARD winning The Oxford Times photographer Yuri Anderegg has been to Austria to pick up two awards in an annual competition recognising the world's best photographs.

Mr Anderegg, 35, who was won awards in six previous competitions, was presented in a ceremony at the International Trierenberg Super Circuit Awards in Linz with gold medals for portrait and panorama pictures.

The competition is organised by the International Federation of Photographic Art and the Photographic Society of America.