It's easy to think of bioluminescence — the magical night-time glow produced by insects and sea creatures — as a phenomenon only found in the tropics, but as these images show it's also something you can find closer to home.
One year on from Michael Gove's consultation on our nation's national parks, we round up the reasons to visit the places which inspired some of our country's most famous and talented poets, writers and painters.
Jay Griffiths bathes in the warm glow of the early-morning sun and delights in the cool calm of twilight–all the while reflecting on how light dances with and enhances our landscape.
Lady’s slippers by the hundreds if not thousands, hillsides golden with daisies, swards of salvias: Sarah Raven salutes Bob Gibbons, who has dedicated the best part of his life to finding and documenting wildflowers. Photographs by Bob Gibbons.
With the chill of winter comes misty mornings and mountainous snowdrifts... a host of elements which combine to create the perfect landscape for beautiful nature photography.
These stunning highlights from the 11th annual International Garden Photographer of the Year competition will be on display at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew for a month from early February.
This year has been a stunning one for Country Life photography and we're lucky to have been able to share so many with you on our Instagram feed. From the queen and her gorgeous labradors to the rolling landscapes of this stunning country, we hope you enjoy the 20 best-loved posts of 2018. To see our entire gallery of photographs, follow @countrylifemagazine on Instagram.
Our hugely popular series tells fascinating tales about extraordinary people keeping traditional skills alive across Britain, illustrated by the wonderful portrait photographs taken by Richard Cannon for Country Life. Our picture editor Lucy Ford makes her selection of her favourites of 2018.
A beautiful new book collects some wonderful images of some of Britain's lighthouses – here's a selection of our favourites.
A new book sheds a wonderful light on the unique relationship that people have with their horses.
Over the course of the last 10 years the British Wildlife Photography Awards have done a wonderful job of showcasing some of the most extraordinary natural wonders of this island.
The Natural History Museum's Wildlife Photographer of the Year award is one of the highlights of the calendar for those of us who love beautiful photographs of nature, and this year's shortlist for the LUMIX People's Choice Award shows exactly why.
We've picked out eleven of our favourite landscapes from the 2018 Landscape Photographer of the Year award.
Enjoy the North York Moors National Park in all its spectacular glory, as captured by readers of Country Life.
A new exhibition shows how modern technology has pushed landscape photography to undreamt-of levels, as the magnificent images on this page show. But some things will always remain the same, as Graeme Green explains.
If you've taken a superb photograph of Britain in the past year, you're still in time to submit it to The Landscape Photographer of the Year Award 2018.
