Archie Miles (born 1952) is a freelance photographer and writer. He was born in Harrogate, Yorkshire in 1952, and studied photography at Trent Polytechnic from 1971-1974. His books, mainly about trees and natural history, are often illustrated with his own photography.
Some of his books include The Victorian Portrait (1989), Travels through Elgar Country (1992), Silva, The Tree in Britain (1999), 'Malvern Hills and Westward (2002), 'Heritage Trees of Scotland' (2003), and 'Heritage Trees of Great Britain and Northern Ireland'(2004)
In 2006 he wrote and illustrated The Trees that Made Britain, a book accompanying the BBC series of the same name. In 2007 he worked as art director and provided the photographs for the Tree Council book Why are Leaves Green?. In 2008 Miles published Hidden Trees of Britain and continued his work with The Woodland Trust by writing A Walk in the Woods (2009).
In 2012, Heritage Trees Wales Heritage Trees was published. It includes both photographs and interesting information on trees.
Miles uses both a Nikon 35mm film camera and a digital camera, preferring film for print matter.
Miles has a picture library of more than 300,000 images. He lives in Herefordshire.
Famous quotes containing the word miles:
“Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge College is as solitary as a dervis in the desert.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)