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If you’re planning to enter our Urban Life round, which launches next week, take these tips from four of last year’s top ten photographers

The search for still-life subjects led the artist Kate Friend to some of the greatest gardens and gardeners in the country, discovers Tiffany Daneff

Andy Westlake assesses a unique telephoto lens for extreme close-up photography

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