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From fighting fish to haunting whale skeletons and swimming monkeys: The spellbinding winners of the 2024 Underwater Photographer of the Year revealed

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Explore new depths and immerse yourself in the beauty beneath the water’s surface through this breathtaking collection of images from Underwater Photographer of the Year 2024.

The winners have been revealed for the annual contest, which gives a platform to awe-inspiring photography captured beneath the surface of oceans, lakes, rivers and even swimming pools.

This year, more than 6,500 underwater pictures were entered by photographers around the world, with scenes captured including two fish fighting with their mouths to a

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Snowcapped castles, frosty fairytale villages and spellbinding frozen lakes: Beautiful images that show how many of the world’s most iconic destinations look at their best… in winter

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Looking forward to spring and a sunshine getaway?

It’s understandable if you are, but these beautiful images are a reminder that many destinations are actually even more enchanting when they’re besprinkled with snow, freckled with frost and draped in cheek-reddening cold mists. 

Our collection here includes iconic cities from New York to London via Paris and Madrid, all looking incredibly enticing in their winter finery.

This spellbinding portfolio will also whisk you to the village that inspired Frozen’s Arendelle, Slovenia’s

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Spellbinding pictures reveal stunning British hiking trails, from the Sussex coast to the Lake District and Scotland’s turquoise beaches

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Time to put your best hiking-boot-adorned foot forward. 

Author and experienced mountaineer Alex Roddie has penned a book that’s guaranteed to spark your lust for wandering, with the tome documenting epic hiking trails in Ireland and Great Britain and stunning photographs showcasing landscapes that can be viewed along the way.

Wanderlust British & Irish Isles: Hiking the Trails of Great Britain and Ireland (gestalten.com) is filled with incredible pictures of dramatic peaks, craggy cliffs and breathtaking beaches – plus expert

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Let there be light! The top 25 aurora photographs of 2023, from spellbinding pink pillars in WALES to an astonishing display in the USA’s Death Valley

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The Northern and Southern Lights put on quite a show this year – and some of the world’s most talented photographers were on hand to capture them in all their dazzling glory.

As we reveal. 

Here we present the best aurora pictures taken around the world in 2023, as carefully chosen by the travel and photography blog Capture the Atlas. The images feature in the blog’s Northern Lights Photographer of the Year collection, which it presents each year to

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Britain at its most spellbinding: The mesmerising winning shots in the Landscape Photographer of the Year 2023 contest, from misty hills to a magical full moon

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Britain’s landscapes can leave you awestruck.

That’s made clear by the stunning photographs that have earned prizes at the 2023 Landscape Photographer of the Year contest, an annual awards that ‘celebrates the wonder of the British landscape’.

‘The competition aims to inspire profound engagement with the British landscape through photography,’ a statement notes.

A shot of a lightning storm off the Hampshire coast, a picture of a wintry scene in the Yorkshire Dales, and an image of a ‘monster’ sea

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Spellbinding pictures capture abandoned America, from a ‘haunted’ jail to a spooky old house filled with forgotten family memorabilia

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A ‘haunted’ jailhouse in Indiana, a dilapidated cinema in Texas and an Illinois car graveyard. 

These are some of the abandoned sites that photographer Ben Geier has captured, with his nostalgia-infused photography drumming up an ever-growing following on Instagram. 

The Illinois native, 42, reveals his motivation is to ‘preserve or document’ abandoned spaces in the U.S, with a particular focus on relics from the 1950s. He says: ‘We are on the brink of that era fading away completely, so I’m

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They’re selfies, but not as you know them: Globetrotting couple photograph EACH OTHER at stunning locations around the world – and the results are spellbinding

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They’re selfies, but not as you know them. 

Zuzu Galova and Peter Sedlacik have a unique portfolio of photographs taken in stunning locations around the world from New York to Australia via London and Paris, with each shot featuring one half of the couple snapping the other half.

The pair have collated the mesmerising images into a series they call Lens Between Us, explaining: ‘Wherever we are, we face each other, frame up a great composition, and take a picture

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The Coronation’s spellbinding reflection of faiths and tradition of Britain | Royal | News

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King Charles Coronation: Monarch waves to crowd on balcony

King Charles and Queen Camilla were crowned in a service full of pageantry and tradition that sought to reflect the different faiths and nations of modern Britain.

The two-hour long spellbinding Coronation at Westminster Abbey had a theme of the monarch’s ­service to the nation at its heart.

But it also went to great lengths to include all four home nations, female clergy and all faiths in ­several additions to the

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The spellbinding winners of the 2022 Bird Photographer of the Year awards revealed

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These are images by one talented flock of photographers.

They have all been honoured in the Bird Photographer of the Year 2022 awards, an annual contest celebrating bird life that this year received more than 20,000 submissions from around the world.

An adorable picture of a pair of embracing Atlantic puffins, a jaw-dropping image of a European shag soaring over an enormous wave, and a poignant shot of a little owlet playing in a dumping ground are among the images

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Stunning book by ‘world’s most travelled hiker’ reveals the spellbinding majesty of the Himalayas

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Get ready to be lifted to the top of the world.    

Author and long-distance adventurer Cam Honan, an Australian who has been described as the ‘most travelled hiker on earth’, has penned a book about the world’s loftiest mountain region – and perusing its pages is a spellbinding experience.

Wanderlust Himalaya, recently published by Gestalten, is lavishly illustrated with incredible pictures of dizzying peaks – and is packed with expert guidance on the best hikes that weave around

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