Photo of the Week: Snow at How Hill

This week’s photograph was taken by Andy Graham, capturing the snow early Thursday morning at How Hill, Fountains Abbey

Andy Graham


Photo of the Week celebrates the Harrogate district. It could be anything from family life to capturing the district’s beauty. We are interested in amateur and professional photographs, in a landscape format.

Send your photographs to letters@thestrayferret.co.uk for a chance to be featured next week, we reserve the right to adjust and crop images to fit into our format.

Stunning photo of Northern Lights over Ripon this morning

Photographer Paul Oldham captured this stunning shot of the Northern Lights over Ripon last night.

Mr Oldham took the image at How Hill at about 2.30am last night.

The Milky Way is also visible in the top left too.

Mr Oldham, who specialises in photographing nature and landscapes in Ripon and the Yorkshire Dales, has taken plenty of outstanding photos before.

But he described last night as “definitely the best photography night of my life”.

The Northern Lights have been visible over England recently. Caused by activity on the surface of the sun, they create a natural light display of green and red.


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