While you might be imagining a Lord of the Rings style landscape with a sky full of bungee jumping daredevils, for the next instalment of our Postcards series Kate McLeod takes us on a far more realistic tour of her hometown.

Time to skip gaily through the streets, chuck confetti everywhere and yell 'Huzzah!'.

Photographer Michael George tunes into the finer points of life, while pedaling across the continent, making a pilgrimage in an unknown land or just pottering about his hometown of Brooklyn.

Forget Disneyland – we reckon this little town is the closest you can get to living in a fairytale.

It's about this time of year when a lazy beach day wouldn't go astray, and these pictures are injecting a healthy dose of the seaside into our morning.

As a wedding photographer she's used to shooting happy couples, but we're seriously digging these double-layered floral portraits by Portland-based snapper Sara K Byrne.

You know that dreamy state between being awake and in a full-blown slumber? Laura Forest's photos inhabit that realm.

No matter how many frequent flyers' points you rack up travelling from one corner of the globe to the other, it's the place you grew up that will often have the biggest impact on you.

Emilia Bergmark-Jiménez was born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden's vibrant capital city, so we figured she'd be a pretty knowledgeable guide for this month's Postcards feature.

Some clever Portuguese designers have come up with the perfect solution to rainy day cabin fever.