Spotlight on readers’ excellent images and how they captured them

Spotlight on readers’ excellent images and how they captured them

Spotlight on readers’ excellent images and how they captured them

Although born in Doncaster during the Second World War, Peter Fitton was brought up in the Fylde, hence his interest in the L&Y – his bedroom in St Annes overlooked the then main line to Blackpool Cen

Photographer Feargus Cooney shares nearly two decades of learning how to thrive in the Scottish winter mountains, and the series of stunning, sometimes hard-won images that have resulted

The votes have been counted, the judges have spoken, and we can finally reveal the winner of our UK Mountain Photo of the Year award – and the stories behind the images that make up our coveted top three spots.