Disappointing Countryfile CinN Calender entries

Well, I've looked at the winning 12 and I must say.......... what a load of rubbish. Pro photographers ruling the waves in an amateur competition.- the 12 photo's include an entry from a chap that has (copied) the idea off another photographer and has won at least 2 other competitions this year.
I also note Photoshop has been used quiet heavily on some photo's. And as to the weasel... a wolf springs to mind.
http://www.countryfile.com/countryside/countryfile-p...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006t0bv

Tend to agree about the standard but dont know anything about whether they pros or not

A number of the photographs - half of them, to be precise - are now not displaying for me.

I'm not sure if this is a technical issue - perhaps at my end - or if they have been "pulled" pending investigation.

I think it's very hard to tell, these days, whether things have been "shopped". But I assume expert judges would be alert to these things.

But blatantly reusing a photograph that has (allegedly) already been published on a Christmas card should be easy enough to check - especially if the person reporting it still has the card, as they claim.