Find out which early species to watch for, how to make your patch more butterfly-friendly and where to record your sightings for science

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

Still raining outside? Then it’s time to get creative with overlay shooting modes and Wendy Evans

Charlotte Beutler’s still-life photo comes under our microscope

Nadia Shaikh goes synaesthetic for the start of spring, almost tasting the orange tang of an early butterfly

Fresh experiments signal a season of change in the garden