Cultural appreciation

While more outlandish colour infrared effects aren’t to everyone’s taste, black & white infrared can look amazing. Just ask Piper Mackay , the current Travel Photographer of the Year…

Brenzett, 2016, by Terry Hulf

Spotlight on readers’ excellent images and how they captured them

The connection between nature and creativity comes in many forms. Here, artists, writers and musicians talk about the different ways in which they take inspiration from the outdoors - and share the places that fuel their imagination

Leah Wood became a painter by way of opening for David Bowie and sashaying down the catwalks, but Nature now lights up her artistic imagination and underpins her efforts to campaign for the environment

After her brother died, photographer Jo Ritchie found herself unable to pick up a camera. But with a portrait series, she has built a community that turns loss into light, resilience and hope, writes Peter Dench