For the College's recent Remote and Rural conference, we asked medical trainees and qualified doctors to present the highlights of their job or the environment they work in for a photo competiton, which was sponsored by Wesleyan. The criteria for their image was to offer a visual perspective on current life or their surroundings. The winner, chosen by the judging panel, was Dr Charlotte Gunner, who received a £150 Amazon voucher and second place, Dr Marcus Rose, won a £50 Amazon voucher.

First place: Dr Charlotte Gunner, Urology Speciality Trainee, Inverness and Clinical Teaching Fellow, University of Aberdeen 

Winning photograph: Liathach

"On a sunny Saturday in February 2018 my husband and I raced from our home near Inverness to the Torridon hills where seemingly endless weeks of sleet and gales had finally given way to a spectacular west coast day without a breath of wind.

Having been posted from Sheffield to Inverness in 2016 through urology national selection, the application process for speciality training, we quickly fell in love with the Highlands. Following a year of urology at Raigmore I took time out of my training to pursue a two-year teaching fellowship with the University of Aberdeen, based in Inverness. This has allowed me to develop my role as a teacher and explore the unique nature of rural practice from the perspective of the medical students I teach, while taking every opportunity to explore the larger than life playground that we are lucky enough to live in.

My husband took a permanent GP job in a thriving practice and we decided to start a family; what better place to bring another human into the world than here? It was at just over 6 months of pregnancy that we made this ascent of Liathach, cementing firmly in our minds one of the many reasons that we love living here. 3 months later our daughter was born in Raigmore hospital; how reassuring to be pacing the corridors of my own workplace while in labour, receiving friendly greetings and well wishes from colleagues as they arrived for their working day.

The UK-wide job allocation process for higher surgical training can feel like pot-luck, but I feel like I have struck gold,"

Second place: Dr Marcus Rose, G.P. 

Second place photo: Strathy Point

"For my fourth year rural GP placement, I was placed with Dr. Andreas Herfurt at Armadale Medical Practice. I was exposed to the difficulties, but mostly the beauty of working in one of the most remote mainland GP practices.

A couple of evenings a week, I would mountain bike along the wetlands of Strathy Point as a way to reflect on the days practice and to take in the surreal northern coast of Scotland.

Dr. Herfurt and I both share a passion in aerial photography, so I find it fitting to submit a drone shot of my final evening excursion to a part of Scotland which will always have a place in my heart."