Stunning images highlight earth’s nature in danger

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

Nature as spectacle – curated, chlorinated and utterly controlled. Zed Nelson’s images are beautiful, bleak, and impossible to ignore, says Peter Dench

Nigerian photographer Oyewole Lawal’s project about the waste miners of Lagos is a stunning and important series. Britta Jaschinski finds out more

The APOY judges choose their favourite images that didn’t make the top ten of our Black & White category

Seeing animals in their natural environment doesn’t mean you have to compromise on comfort…

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