The Craven Herald’s multi-award-winning photographer, Stephen Garnett, has added a major national title to his long list of accolades.

He has won a first prize in the national Take a View competition, aimed at finding the UK’s Landscape Photographer of the Year.

Stephen 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 showed Kilnsey Show fell runners scrambling up the hillside next to the famous crag.

The organisers said the competition had attracted some stunning photography and the judges – including Damien Demolder, editor of Amateur Photographer, and top landscape photographer Charlie Waite – had had an extremely hard, but enjoyable task picking the winners.

“I am delighted and feel very honoured,” said Stephen, who has worked for the Craven Herald for 21 years.

His winning entry was published in the Sunday Times magazine and Guardian newspaper this week and will appear in a new book, Landscape Photographer of the Year – Collection 03, which is due to be published next Saturday, October 31.

And he will also have his work displayed at a six-week exhibition at the National Theatre, on London’s South Bank. It opens on December 5 and runs until January 24.

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 next month.

His other awards have included being named the Newspaper Society’s weekly photographer of the year twice and the Press Gazette’s sports photographer of the year.

A former pupil of Aireville School, Skipton, Stephen studied photography at Cleveland College of Art before being appointed the Craven Herald’s staff photographer.

Craven Herald editor Peter Greenwood said: “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.”

Also shortlisted in the Take a View competition was amateur Earby photographer Tessa Bird.

Her photographs of the limestone pavement above Ingleton Waterfalls walk, with Ingleborough in the distance, were shortlisted in the category for pictures taken with a mobile phone and those taken in a National Park.

“I was amazed and delighted to have reached the final shortlist,” said 61-year-old Tessa. “It’s a very good achievement of which I’m very proud as this was a national competition.”

* You can see more of Stephen’s work in our glossy, full-colour supplement, “A Year in Craven” — free with this week’s Craven Herald.