“it’s like a grown-up’s game of hide and seek”

Spotlight on readers’ excellent images and how they captured them

Spotlight on readers’ excellent images and how they captured them

Photographer Feargus Cooney shares nearly two decades of learning how to thrive in the Scottish winter mountains, and the series of stunning, sometimes hard-won images that have resulted

Harry is a rising star who loves observing wildlife behaviour and feels privileged to photograph them

The APOY judges choose their favourite images that didn’t make the top ten of our Animal Kingdom category

Do you daydream about swapping the rat race for an outdoor-centric existence The trailblazers here have all taken dramatic steps to change their lives their stories might just inspire you to do the same