Early morning frost, the North Downs, Kent, 2010This atmospheric picture was taken near photographer Martin Godwins home on the North Downs, near Biggin Hill, in early January 2010. He has lived there for the past 25 years, and watched the trees along this avenue grow from saplings. Its all about the light, he says. As a photographer, light is one of the biggest things that interest you. Here, the sun is just breaking through the clouds, creating a band of light. This radiance, along with the line

smells and sounds

” says Jenkins

So he set up a remote camera beyond the finish line

His photograph captures the physicality of the hikers’ slow trudge up the mountainside

Made in India

sun-baked skin and the palatial surroundings

a few days earlier

surrounded by dry stone walls and sweeping hills

30x40cm and 42x59

“They all fall in the round I call

Dancers from English National Ballet perform Swan Lake against the magnificent backdrop of the Palace of Versailles

Scottish coastal rowing