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

Spotlight on readers’ excellent images and how they captured them

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

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

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

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