Story behind the still

A new book of bird photography celebrates not only the avian world, but the photographers using creative techniques to produce original artworks, from characterful studio portraits to eye-catching abstracts, writes Graeme Green

Karen Youngs revels in the changing landscape and encounters a handsome game bird on a morning walk

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Spotlight on readers’ excellent images and how they captured them

Here are the top ten images uploaded to Photocrowd from Round Three, Close-ups and Details, with comments by the AP team and our guest judge

From season to season, the ptarmigan’s clever camouflage is perfect cover for the mountains – observes an awestruck Nadia Shaikh