Adventures in travel and photography @robertharding.com
Photographer Tim MacPherson has made these awesome country maps, made from nations’ most iconic dishes.
Bacon in the shape of the UK (Tim MacPherson/Robert Harding)
Chicken curry and spices in the shape of India (Tim MacPherson/Robert Harding)
Tomato pasta sauce in the shape of Italy (Tim MacPherson/Robert Harding)
Slice of beef in the shape of the US (Tim MacPherson/Robert Harding)
See more tasty food and travel photography here
We love these photos of prickly hedgehogs by Ann and Steve Toon. The Toons can often be found exploring the African wildernesses in search of exotic wildlife, but here they’ve turned their lenses upon one of the UK’s most endearing garden mammals. Read more of Ann and Steve Toon’s work here.
Hedgehog in autumn leaves, UK (Robert Harding/Ann and Steve Toon)
By Tom Walmsley
Tiny, trickling streams, meandering rivers, gushing waterfalls and vast estuaries represent just some of the diversity of our natural watercourses in the UK and around the world.
This Monday (8th September) saw residents of the village of Abbots Bromley in Staffordshire perform the eccentric Abbots Bromley Horn Dance, an English folk tradition dating back to the Middle Ages. The dancers make their way around the village wearing reindeer antlers accompanied by a hobby horse, a woman dressed as Maid Marion, a jester and an accordion player.
Abbots Bromley horn dancers, Staffordshire, England (Neil Farrin/Robert Harding)
The Lake District is England’s largest national park, home of the country’s deepest lake (Wastwater) and highest peak (Scafell Pike). We picked some of our favourite photos of the region.
Cyclist on mountain bike, Honister Pass (Purcell-Holmes/Robert Harding)
The Cotswold region is one of England’s favourite destinations with country churches, pretty limestone villages and peaceful meadows. Top landscape photographer Adam Burton took these beautiful photos.
Church of St. Mary the Virgin surrounded by countryside, Lasborough, Gloucestershire
Beltane, or Celtic Mayday, marks the beginning of summer. It is a fertility ritual that was performed by pre-Christian Britons while accompanying the herds into the open fields for the first time in the year. It is still celebrated in some parts of the UK, like in this increasingly popular event in Hampshire, England, photographed by Phil Clarke-Hill.
Traditional dancing at Beltane celebrations at Butser Ancient Farm, Hampshire, England (Phil Clarke-Hill/Robert Harding)
It’s bluebell season and in the UK many woods and fields are carpeted with these bell-like violet flowers.
A Border Collie dog in Bluebells, Ambleside, Cumbria, England (Ashley Cooper/Robert Harding)
Wooden beach huts have existed since the late 19th Century in Australia, England, France and Italy. They evolved from the ‘bathing machine’, a mobile changing room that preserved the modesty of Victorian bathers, and they continue to brighten up our sea fronts. Here are some of our favourites, as captured by our photographers.
Beach huts in Whitby, North Yorkshire, UK (age fotostock/Robert Harding)
Landscape photographer Lizzie Shepherd shot these wonderful images of England’s North York Moors from the same point along the Cleveland Way, at different seasons and times of day.
Read more about Lizzie and her work here
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