Photographers get platform to showcase lines of beauty

Landscape photographer Charlie Waite give some photography tips to Katy Snowdon

A collection of stunning images taken by train travellers is being showcased at the city’s central station this week.

The touring collection – featuring some of the best entries from the last six years of the Take A View Landscape Photographer of the Year competition – focuses on beautiful shots of places that can be reached by the region’s railways.

Travellers this week are also being urged to use their cameras, phones and tablets to share the best view on their train journeys.

Yorkshire’s fabulous countryside and its railway-related heritage already offer rich pickings for enthusiasts. And now rail bosses want people to get snap happy and enter the 2013 Landscape Photographer of the Year competition.

Yesterday, wannabe snappers  in Leeds got some top tips from  one of the world’s most renowned landscape photographers, Charlie  Waite.

Highlights of the exhibition, which is in Leeds until Saturday, include a stunning late-afternoon shot of an illuminated Newlands Valley in the Lake District.

The competition closes on July 4. Visit www.take-a-view.co.uk.