Animal magic and a camera changed everything for my girl Paula McDonald, 39, Ardrossan, North Ayrshire

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

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

Spotlight on readers’ excellent images and how they captured them

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