Mail photographer Yuri Anderegg has been at it again this time snapping up two awards in a competition for the world's best photographers.

Mr Anderegg won two gold medals in the International Trierenberg Super Circuit awards, one in the portrait category with Soul Eater and the second in the panorama category with Saturn Eclipse.

Mr Anderegg, 35, said: "I am very, very pleased. I have entered this competition a few times before and been successful in smaller categories, but never won major awards like this.

"Thousands of professsional photographers worldwide enter and only a fraction of these are accepted. Winners are chosen from those."

Mr Anderegg, who lives in Abingdon, will now travel to Linz, Austria, in October for an awards ceremony attended by the great and the good of the photography world.

The awards are organised by the International Federation of Photographic Art and the Photographic Society of America.

Mr Anderegg added: "I am looking forward to mixing with the other award winners. It will be a very exciting opportunity to meet the best of the best."

The winning photographs were taken as part of a fine art exhibitionTo see more of his work visit www.yga.uk.com