How i got the shot

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

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PHOTOGRAPHER SIMON URWIN ON THE UNIQUE CHALLENGES OF CAPTURING RAJA AMPAT’S CORAL REEFS FOR OUR OCTOBER ISSUE

Bright colours, an open layout and versatile lighting turned Sarah and John Yates’ unwelcoming subterranean kitchen into the heart of the home

Spotlight on readers’ excellent images and how they captured them

Previous pages, top right: ‘The whole of Alto de El Morredero on Stage 17 was a barren, blackened landscape as far as the eye could see. Spain had had some of its worst ever wildfires there about a mo