Photography
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Charlie Waite: One of the world's best landscape photographers on how to take pictures, the unknowable beauty of Britain and why an iPhone can be good enough
Charlie Waite — the British landscape photographer famous for his painterly approach — on how he produces such striking images and how amateurs might follow suit.
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10 beautiful and thought-provoking pictures of the oceans to remind us all what's at stake
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10 sublime photographs from the 2021 RHS Photographic Competition
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14 rare pictures of The Queen and Prince Philip
On the sad occasion of the passing of Prince Philip, we look back at the rare pictures that we collected together to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the couple.
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10 majestic pictures of the beautiful nature of Britain, in honour of World Wildlife Day
March 3 is World Wildlife Day, so to mark the occasion we're celebrating the stunning flora and fauna of Britain.
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In Focus: A photographer's magical celebration of the farmers of Yorkshire
Photographer Valerie Mather has chronicled the lives of farmers in her award-winning images, which are now collected together together in a handsome book: Yorkshire Born & Bred: Farming Life.
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Country Life's 10 most beautiful Instagram posts of 2020
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14 adorable, breathtaking and funny pictures from the Close-Up Photographer of the Year 2020
From a friendly toad to an eel in a dark tropical sea to a group of funghi 'marching' along a tree trunk in Buckinghamshire, we take a look at the best images from the Close-Up Photographer of the Year competition.
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The fascinating — and slightly creepy — winners of the first-ever Bug Photographer of the Year awards
James Fisher celebrates some of the finest images hailed by judges at the Luminar Bug Photography Awards.
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Nine dazzlingly beautiful images from Landscape Photographer of the Year 2020
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In Focus: The incomparable photography of Helmut Newton
Photographer Helmut Newton enjoyed a glittering career that blurred the lines between fashion, photography and art; as his centenary approaches he's celebrated in a new exhibition.
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The thrilling, funny and scarcely believable stories behind the amazing photographs from the 2020 Wildlife Photographer of the Year
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Cheddar Gorge and The Mendips AONB: The landscape that inspired ancient cave painters, William Blake and a thousand magnificent photographs
Local legend has it that Jesus Christ himself once walked the green hills of the Mendips — and while that tale pushes fantasy too far, this beautiful spot has been inspiring Mankind for 10,000 years.
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How to turn a night-time walk into a chance to grab magnificent images of the night sky
August is a great month for amateur night stargazers: sunset is getting earlier, skies are darker, yet it's warm enough to stay out at night without freezing. And with a few bits of modern technology it's easy to capture beautiful Milky Way pictures as you're out and about.
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Photographing the Ruvaal Lighthouse: How Country Life's photographer went the extra mile — or 175 miles — for the perfect image
Among the many beautiful features in Country Life's 29 July 2020 issue — guest edited by The Princess Royal — is the article about the garden at the astonishing Ruvaal lighthouse. Getting the pictures to illustrate it proved to be something of an epic for photographer Andrea Jones.
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The Princess Royal at 70, and the stories behind the pictures to celebrate her life so far
We take a look at the images on the Country Life frontispiece page featuring The Princess Royal over the 70 years of her life.
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VE Day in pictures: 14 powerful and evocative images that capture the joy of May 8, 1945
Country Life takes a look back at this day in history, 75 years ago, when the Second World War in Europe came to an end after six long, bloody years.
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London has never been this quiet in 2,000 years — here's what it looks like, and what we can learn
In all of its 2,000-year history, it seems unlikely that the City of London has ever stood so silent as it does presently. Can we learn from the quiet, asks Architectural Editor John Goodall, who also took the photographs on this page.
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The photographer walking 7,000 miles around the coast of Britain: 'After 450 days of walking I've not been bored once'
Quintin Lake has always loved walking, ever since trekking from Lands End to John O'Groats as a teenager. But his five-year epic journey around the coast of Britain has taken his love for getting out and about to a new level — as well as his love for our beautiful island.
