Going wild on a budget

Spotlight on readers’ excellent images and how they captured them

What is it like being a staff photographer for the RSPCA, the world’s biggest animal welfare organisation? Geoff Harris finds out

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

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

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…

If there’s one thing Sarah Eden knows how to do, it’s provide overlooked creatures with a moment in the spotlight. From quietly noble badgers to the much-maligned mouse, her oil paintings lift the eve