Spotlight on readers’ excellent images and how they captured them

From a milliner inspired by topiary to a model-turned-ecological gardener and a couple who swapped jobs in telecommunications for growing vegetables, Sir David Beckham’s rural heroes tell Julie Harding why craft and the countryside are key

Cyclist: What has been your highlight of a successful 2025 season? Matthew Brennan: There are two: my first pro win at the GP Denain, more of a Classics-style race; then going on to the Volta a Catalu

Professional photographer Edmond Terakopian recounts how he’s fallen in love with Fujifilm’s medium-format compact, the GFX100RF

Nick Teo creates collaborative portraits that celebrate marginalised communities while drawing on his own experience of neurodivergence, writes Peter Dench

Being in the right place at the right time can be more important than long hours,