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

Once again, our Amateur Photographer of the Year competition was tightly fought – and for the second time, Young APOY ended up with joint winners!

Spotlight on readers’ excellent images and how they captured them

Self-portrait by Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1896

One reader, one pro… creative studio lighting effects under the direction of James Paterson

Conflict photography has been manipulated in a range of ways since the medium began, as Hilary Roberts reveals in her new book. She talks to David Clark