Ticket to ride

10 things you can shoot and create this month, from trees and conkers to mountains and motorbikes

How to offset a drab and grey sky, with Kevin Winter

Winding through the Southern Alps in New Zealand, the TranzAlpine is lauded as one of the world’s greatest rail journeys, but few know that its well-worn tracks also trace the path of an ancestral Māori trade route

Spotlight on readers’ excellent images and how they captured them

All Aboard for the Young Railway Photographer of the Year 2025

If you’re planning to enter our Animal Kingdom round, which launches next week, take these tips from three of last year’s top ten photographers