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When everything comes together, there’s no better feeling, as Michael Topham experienced in Croatia

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Here are the top ten images uploaded to Photocrowd from Round One, Black & White, with comments by the AP team and our guest judges

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Spotlight on readers’ excellent images and how they captured them