Gallery: Iconic photographs capture Dales beauty

A photography competition that invited people to submit their favourite views of the Yorkshire Dales has been won with this striking image of a lone sheep in the snow.
The winning image by Les Fitton, 'Winter Sheep' taken on Ingleborough, in a competition to submit favourite views of the Yorkshire Dales run by Yorkshire Cottages and Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust.The winning image by Les Fitton, 'Winter Sheep' taken on Ingleborough, in a competition to submit favourite views of the Yorkshire Dales run by Yorkshire Cottages and Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust.
The winning image by Les Fitton, 'Winter Sheep' taken on Ingleborough, in a competition to submit favourite views of the Yorkshire Dales run by Yorkshire Cottages and Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust.

Les Fitton, from Bolton, captured the picture on what he described as a “claggy” day on Ingleborough - the second highest mountain in the Dales and one of Yorkshire’s famous Three Peaks.

Some 500 entries were received via Facebook as part of the competition, run for the fourth year, by accommodation provider Yorkshire Cottages and local charity Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust.

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Settle-based professional photographer Steve Finch was handed the task of picking out a winner.

Twistleton Scar, a photograph shot by Dutchman Remco Rog who was runner up in the competition.Twistleton Scar, a photograph shot by Dutchman Remco Rog who was runner up in the competition.
Twistleton Scar, a photograph shot by Dutchman Remco Rog who was runner up in the competition.

Mr Finch said: “With hundreds of fantastic images to choose from, selecting an overall winner was always going to be very difficult.

“This shot stood out for me because it perfectly captures living and working in the Dales in winter. It’s a good, honest photo.”

A foreign visitor to the Dales was named in second place. Remco Rog from the Netherlands scooped the runners up spot with an unusual image of an erratic at Twistleton Scar.

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Mr Rog said: “I have been coming to the Dales each year for more than 12 years now. Always new things to discover, new hills to climb. It is my second home.”

The best images from the competition will be brought together for Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust’s 2017 charity calendar.

Some of the other scenes that caught the eye of the judges and will be featured in the calendar is one of Scots Guardsman, the British locomotive, which was caught on camera by Andrew Thrippleton of Pudsey as it steamed across Dent Head viaduct, and Lancashire entrant Nigel Hunter’s detailed black and white photograph of a paraglider soaring over Ingleborough on a sunny day.

The finished calendar will go on sale from the charity’s online shop next month.

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