Close encounters

Spotlight on readers’ excellent images and how they captured them

For years, Theo Bosboom had longed to photograph wildflowers from the viewpoint of the tiny insects that live among them. His dream finally became reality when a long, narrow, wide-angle macro lens (t

Your chance to enter the UK’s most prestigious com petition for amateur photographers Round three

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

If you plan to enter our Close-ups and Details round, which launches next week, take these tips from three of last year’s top ten photographers

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