An award-winning regonal press photographer has added a major national title to his long list of accolades.

Stephen Garnett, of the Craven Herald, has won first prize in a competition to find the UK’s landscape photographer of the year.

He took top honours – and a £1,000 cheque – in the Living the View category where entrants had to show how people interacted with the outdoors.

His picture Kilnsey Show, below, showed fell runners scrambling up the hillside in the Yorkshire Dales.

“I’ve never really regarded myself as a landscape photographer, but I am delighted and feel very honoured,” said Stephen, who has worked for the Craven Herald for 21 years.

Craven Herald editor Peter Greenwood added: “This is a prestigious award and is yet another indication of how highly Stephen is regarded, not just locally but nationally too. His pictures capture life in the Dales like no other photographer can. We are very proud of him.”

His winning entry in the Take-a-View contest was published in the Sunday Times magazine and will appear in a new book, Landscape Photographer of the Year – Collection 03.

He will also have his work displayed at a six-week exhibition at the National Theatre, on London’s South Bank, from 5 December until 24 January.

Stephen, 47, already has numerous awards to his name.

He has twice won the Yorkshire Press Awards weekly photographer of the year title and is hoping to make it a hat-trick when this year’s winners are announced at a gala dinner tomorrow night.