John, 37, of Hebden Bridge, confessed photography wasn’t his puppy love however that he was constantly on the look-out for strong topic for pictures when he was out on his journeys.
And his winning photo, that reveals his rescue dog Oso watching out over a climatic horizon on the West Yorkshire moors, was among those best minutes.
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John, a business operations supervisor at a psychological health charity, said: “I used to dabble in photography with a proper camera but I wasn’t keen on all of the desktop editing.
“Now, I just take pictures on my Samsung mobile phone when the right time arises.
“The technology for taking pictures on mobiles these days is fantastic.”
It likewise wasn’t unexpected that his animal dog Oso was the star of the program.
John explained: “I lived in Spain for a while in a town called El Chorro and it was there that I rescued Oso.
“He was a street dog living behind a waste bin when I took him into my care. We now go everywhere together.
“He’s called Oso, which in Spanish means the bear, because he is such a big dog!”
The South Pennines Park – which covers swathes of North and East Lancashire and North and West Yorkshire – introduced the social networks competitors with the objective of highlighting the mix of city and rural areas that make the location distinct.
