Jessica Miller looks back at the winning images from another great year of photography competitions

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

When Instagram introduced video, many photographers felt sidelined. So street pro Alan Schaller decided to build his own app and created Irys, that puts photographers and still images back in the limelight. He talks to Benedict Brain about building a new photographers’ place online

Here are the top ten images uploaded to Photocrowd from Round Seven, Animal Kingdom, with comments by the AP team and our guest judge

Jonathon Isola, Chandler, Arizona, USA

The latest winners of Bird Photographer of the Year were as stunning as ever. Jade Burrell writes about the contest and the overall winner as we showcase our favourites