Shot of the month

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

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

We love moaning. The raw file won’t open, the firmware update wiped your settings. But spare a thought for the early adopters – when digital photography meant ghostly battery life, media cards that could barely hold a lunch break, colours that made everything look a bit ill. Peter Dench hears from top shooters about those early frustrations and breakthroughs, and adds his own…

When everything comes together, there’s no better feeling, as Michael Topham experienced in Croatia

DIGITAL 50 YEARS

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