Consider the world’s grandest, most majestic buildings. There’s palaces, cathedrals, skyscrapers… libraries?

More commonly associated with dust than spectacle, for students libraries are often synonymous with boredom, but there are some photogenic readings rooms that belie their reputation and then some.

These picks, researched by holiday rentals search engine Holidu, blends classic with contemporary to find Europe’s best and brightest libraries, from campus eco-builds to medieval monasteries in the foothills of the Alps…

There’s no denying a good smartphone filter can come in handy for travel photos...

Whether it’s ramping up the intensity of a sunset or making sure the colours in a scene really pop.

Some influencers go even further, editing out other people from the scenery so it looks like they’re the only ones there, removing clouds from the sky.

But could the tides be turning on our appetites for heavily-filtered ‘perfect’ Instagram feeds?

Widely considered the most beautiful times of day, sunset and sunrise are also probably the most difficult to photograph

Capturing the right composition of light and camera settings while racing against the movements of the sun can be an unforgiving enterprise, but, if you get it right, the results are often spectacular.

Fifty stunning sunset and sunrise-themed photos – selected from nearly 20,000 submissions – are now vying for victory in #GoldenHour2020, an international competition put on by free-to-use photography app Agora.