Impartial Reporter freelance photographers have shared their personal favourite photographs from 2024, and explain what they mean to them. Here, Trevor Armstrong discusses his favourite five.

1) This was one of these stories that The Impartial Reporter are good at telling. I was asked to go down to Omagh to get this shot, of Mechelle Dillon, seen here holding a picture of her late mother, Brenda.

I sat with Michelle for a while as she told me her story [of how their lives were affected by mother-and-baby homes]. It needed to be a picture that told a story, and her story was that of being taken from her mother at birth.

I hope I did her story justice, as it was amazing to hear her tell it to me.

2) This was taken out on the Lough Erne one morning while teams were practicing for the ‘Head of the Erne’ event.

I was asked did I want to go out on a boat, and my reply was, "As long as it's not the Titanic"!

Gaye Conway was my skipper, and we followed the teams around the water for about an hour, and this was one of many that featured - featuring Zara Welsh, Naomi Robinson, Hannah Armstrong, Rhea Cartin McCloskey and Jessica Thompson (cox) - but gained a full page on its own.

My sea legs – or lack of them – took a while to recover before the next job of the day.

3) I was asked to cover the Hallowe’en celebrations and fireworks in Enniskillen.

Having been told to get enough to fill two pages, your mind goes into overdrive to find them.

This one just appeared as I got out of the car at the car park near the Lakeland Forum.

A mother and daughter were just getting out of their car also and putting on their fancy dress for the parade. The first shot was done – and only 19 to go. What a picture!

4) One of my favourite sports is motorcycle racing. Unfortunately, we had no road racing in the county this year, but we did get to enjoy some motocross action.

The Fermanagh Motorcycle Club hosted an event at Castle Leslie and had some riders from all over Ireland attending.

I was lucky to get up pretty close to some of the jumps around the course, and get a good spread in the Sports section for the club. A sport not for the faint-hearted.

5) This was quite an unusual one by any means. I had seen on social media that there were going to be husky dogs racing with sleds at Castle Cauldwell.

So away my daughter and I went one very cold, frosty morning in February to see this event.

It was amazing to watch the teams – from one dog up to four dogs – running through the forests.

Then when all the dogs are resting up, you hear the howls of wolf-like sounds throughout the woods. Definitely a morning to remember.