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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

Nature as spectacle – curated, chlorinated and utterly controlled. Zed Nelson’s images are beautiful, bleak, and impossible to ignore, says Peter Dench

Wildlife photography isn’t all about attention-grabbing species, writes Rob Read

Alíz Kovács-Zöldi considers…

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If you’re planning to enter our Landscapes round, which launches next week, take these tips from three of last year’s top ten photographers