Mistakes happen

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

Spotlight on readers’ excellent images and how they captured them

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

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

However good your camera and lens, raw files usually benefit from some processing and tweaking. Rod Lawton shares some essential enhancements