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

A change is as good as a rest, so the saying goes. As well as a relaxing break, travelling to a new destination can spark creativity, and if your holiday takes in a lovely garden or a beautiful landsc

Jonathon Isola, Chandler, Arizona, USA

Spotlight on readers’ excellent images and how they captured them

When painting from a reference photo, it’s fair to say that composition is already there for you. But when we paint in the great outdoors, it suddenly becomes very difficult. You have a wide periphera

Moments enjoyed, lessons learned, handy advice, weird stuff that happened: welcome to the little bits and pieces that don’t make big stories, but do make all the difference.