Photography
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Slim, rich and famous: Riviera chic through the unforgettable lens of Slim AaronsOne of the most famous photographers of the 20th century, Slim Aarons captured the post-war jet set, but his images belie a desire to document.
By Rosie Paterson Last updated
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The unseen Queen, the ultimate Highland train and the three-bedroom wreck for sale at £695kBy Toby Keel Published
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Dawn Chorus: Gangster badgers, at home with Sienna Miller, and a fresh slap in the face for first-time buyersFriday's Dawn Chorus looks at a badger gan
By Toby Keel Published
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Country Life's top 10 arts stories of 2024From the artist killed on his first day in the war to a masterpiece once sold for £30, these were our most popular arts stories of 2024.
By Toby Keel Published
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The grand master 'paintings' that are actually the most exquisite floral photographs you'll ever seeHarald Altmaier’s photographs of floral tableaux, as colossal in effort as in scale, recall 17th-century Dutch still lifes, but the inspiration behind them is far wider, as Carla Passino finds.
By Carla Passino Published
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Dawn Chorus: The photographer-florist creating modern Grand Masters, plus Ashdown Forest and our Quiz of the DayA look at the work of Harald Altmaier, an unusual solution to an imaginary problem, and much more besides in today's Dawn Chorus.
By Toby Keel Published
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London as you've never seen it — and as you'll never see it againThe East End of London has changed rapidly in recent years, but photographer Paul Trevor chronicled it from the 1970s to the 1990s. His images have been collected in a new book, Market Day.
By Annunciata Elwes Published
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Goodwood Revival 2024: What you missed at the world's most elegant motor race weekendThe Goodwood Revival is one of the highlights of the summer — even when the weather does its best to put a damper on things.
By Toby Keel Published
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70 mesmerising pictures of Nature and man going on display at Charlie Waite's latest exhibition in LondonAdmission is free to Charlie Waite's Light & Land exhibition at the Mall Galleries.
By Toby Keel Published
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The shire horses still ploughing the fields of London deep into the 21st centuryPhotographer Natasha Durlacher's passion project shines a light on the wonderful shire horses who still have a place in modern London.
By Annunciata Elwes Published
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'If you get 12 great photographs a year, you're doing well': Charlie Waite on the secrets of landscape photographyThe world-renowned landscape photographer Charlie Waite joins the Country Life Podcast.
By Toby Keel Published
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From Derbyshire to Dunrobin to the Dordogne, Andrea Jones's spectacular winning photographs in the RHS Botanical Photography Awards 2024Garden photographer Andrea Jones is among the winners at the RHS Botanical Photography Awards, on show at the Saatchi Gallery.
By Toby Keel Published
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Millie Pilkington: Photographing dogs, movie stars and the Royal FamilyPortrait photographer Millie Pilkington joins James Fisher on the Country Life podcast.
By Toby Keel Published
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Bert Hardy: The photographer who chronicled mid-century Britain, from the Blitz to BlackpoolThe work of photographer Bert Hardy is celebrated in a new show at The Photographers’ Gallery in London.
By Toby Keel Published
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Six of the most beautiful waterfalls in Britain, from Devon to the Isle of SkyeSurging, foaming, trickling, crashing, cascading or flowing, waterfalls paint the landscape with rainbow-scattered spray and misty plumes. Here, we celebrate these streaks of molten silver, from wild moor to woodland dell, as picked out by our picture editor Lucy Ford.
By Lucy Ford Published
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10 truly breathtaking images from Country Life to celebrate the landscapes and seasons of BritainTake a look at some of the great depictions of the seasons and landscapes of Britain, as celebrated in the new book 'Country Life: 125 Years of Countryside Living in Great Britain'.
By John Goodall Published
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The 25 stunning images shortlisted for Wildlife Photographer of the Year's People's Choice awardVoting is now open for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year's People's Choice award — take a look at all 25 shortlisted images.
By Toby Keel Published
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Country Life's best Instagram posts of 2022Our Instagram feed @countrylifemagazine has proven enormously popular over the years, and it's a real joy finding the best images to share with you.
By Toby Keel Published
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Landscape Photographer of the Year 2022: The best pictures, as chosen by our picture editorCountry Life picture editor Lucy Ford chooses her very favourites from the astonishing images of nature in the 2022 Landscape Photographer of the Year competition.
By Lucy Ford Published
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12 of the world's most extraordinary and beautiful weather phenomena — and what makes them happenWe 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’.
By Country Life Published
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20 rare and wonderful pictures of The Queen and Prince PhilipWith 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.
By Toby Keel Published


