This month: Improve composition Compose yourself for photographs that are worth looking at more than once

Charlotte Beutler’s still-life photo comes under our microscope

Digital Camera readers show how they’ve been getting creative, submitting images across a range of genres

Master creative use of long exposure to capture the dynamics of nature, says Karolina Konsur

Here are the top ten images uploaded to Photocrowd from Round Ten, Open, with comments by the AP team and our guest judges

Benedict Brain searches his archives for the inspiration to escape winter’s creative doldrum