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

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

John Wade looks at cameras from the country that invented photography

John Wade takes an instant liking to a folding Lomo camera

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

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