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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 beautiful and thought-provoking pictures of the oceans to remind us all what's at stake
Sir David Attenborough recently said 'The oceans power of regeneration is remarkable — if we just offer it the chance.' It effects every living thing on earth — from the air we breathe, to the weather and climate — and it's never been more at stake than it is now.
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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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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.
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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: The stories behind Country Life's Frontispiece pictures
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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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.
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11 breathtaking images of The Gower, the spot so magnificent it inspired the creation of Britain's Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty
Octavia Pollock takes a look at the magnificent Welsh coastal landscape of The Gower Peninsula, whose tales are as eye-opening as its beauty.
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10 utterly glorious images from the South Downs National Park photography competition
An image of horses enjoying a peaceful stroll on the South Downs was voted the best picture in the national park's annual photography competition — but the others on the shortlist are just as worthy of celebration.
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21 joyous pictures of Britain to raise your spirits on the first day of Spring
There's never been a more important time to get out into the countryside and smell the roses. Or watch the lambs. Or marvel at the views, and dozens of other things.
