Photography
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Landscape Photographer of the Year 2022: The best pictures, as chosen by our picture editor
Country Life picture editor Lucy Ford chooses her very favourites from the astonishing images of nature in the 2022 Landscape Photographer of the Year competition.
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12 of the world's most extraordinary and beautiful weather phenomena — and what makes them happen
We can all identify bolts of lightning, rainbows and stormy skies, but what of some of the earth’s more unusual and most spectacular weather phenomena? Here, photographers explain the science behind their astounding images in an extract from ‘Royal Meteorological Society: Weather A–Z’.
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20 rare and wonderful pictures of The Queen and Prince Philip
With Her Majesty the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh both now having passed away, we take a look back at some wonderful images of their time together — a time which began several years before Princess Elizabeth became Queen Elizabeth II.
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Dog photography: How to capture perfect pictures of your pooch
Dog photography (or phodography) has risen in popularity in recent years, ever since our phones became able to capture beautiful shots of even the fastest whippet. Alexandra Fraser explains why she's determined to capture Wilf's life on film, and how she does this while still letting him be a puppy.
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Country Life's 10 most inspiring, beautiful and evocative Instagram posts of 2021
Our most-liked posts of 2021 honour members of the Royal family and those no longer with us, show our unyielding love of tiny mammals and celebrate the glorious gardens and idyllic green pockets of our country's landscape.
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13 truly staggering images from Close-up Photographer of the Year 2021
An astonishing image of butterflies underwater, other-worldly images of funghi and a candid snap of a cheeky rodent are among the winners and runners-up for the 2021 Close-up Photographer of the Year awards.
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Eight truly magnificent images from the 2021 Audubon Photography Awards
The Audubon Society's 2021 Audubon Photography Awards generated a huge number of utterly magnificent pictures of birds.
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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 sublime photographs from the 2021 RHS Photographic Competition
Some truly breathtaking images were among the best photographs in the 2021 RHS Photographic Competition.
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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
Our most-liked posts of the year show exactly what our ethos is: celebrating the best that our spectacularly beautiful country has to offer.
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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
Country Life's picture editor Lucy Ford picks out her favourite images from the Landscape Photographer of the Year 2020 awards.
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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
A tiger enjoying a priceless scratch and an extraordinary glimpse of a volcano in action are among the winners of the 56th Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.
