Most of the landscape shots or depictions that we've seen - so far - are of a managed environment - managed via agriculture, forestry or parks service. Places might not have been open to the public, but these people did not stop working during the pandemic, and most of these images do not represent nature resetting itself (and certainly not if they're taken in previous years), but of the unseen and unappreciated work of those who continue to shape our natural environment into the forms we recognise, and put food on our plate.
If Edward's message is that we should appreciate this work - just like last issue with the health service and postal workers - I could see the continuity in the message, but if it's just a long series of nice snaps reprinted on the front, with some vague handwaving in the editor's note towards the wonders of nature... if farmers sat back doing nothing, like all these celebrities with their games consoles, food supply would have been in a terrible state.
It's not really Vogue's remit - but if you're going to use the pictures, you might as well think through the message and capitalise on it, for continuity.
When my subscription turns up in two weeks time, I wonder which one I'll get. Will it be the Hackney Crack?
