Man-made landscapes!

Spotlight on readers’ excellent images and how they captured them

Documentary photographer Richard Cross rises above the shortbread tin romanticism that colours so much of our outdoor heritage, with the perspective provided by drone photography applied to land use issues of our day

Nine ideas and techniques to inspire your urban journey

Photographing a single subject repeatedly can be just as rewarding as chasing ‘ticks’, writes Rob Read

Buying a property that includes a ruin carries undoubted romance, but there are caveats, reminds Lucy Denton, who advises on the help at hand

From dilapidated cottages to the site of a notorious nuclear disaster, what is behind the longing to seek out abandoned places, asks Katie Scott