Looking for a quick getaway and to take in some sea air without a long journey or too many other people with the same idea?

The empty frames hanging on the walls of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston aren't a sign of work in progress.

How to capture the marvellousness of moonlight? As the photos floating around Twitter testify, it is difficult to do so on a smartphone: it comes out as a pitiful streak, a smear, a sad shadow of its ...