Portraits challenge

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

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

The founder of the Travel Photographer of the Year awards tells Niall Hampton what winning images need to possess

When I saw this Italian cheese described as ‘intense and nutty’ – I thought it summed me up perfectly. Now I need a ‘full-bodied and dry’ wine to go with it! Lucy Cunningham, Barry I put banana skins

Burning question about the future of photography? Want to discuss a feature or tutorial in the magazine? Send your letters to digitalcamera@futurenet.com

Calling all photographers! Frame the past and celebrate the present with the return of the National Historic Ships UK Photography Competition – and see your work set sail in a national exhibition