I was always driven by a passion for the sea

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

Spotlight on readers’ excellent images and how they captured them

While photographing lifesavers, Benedict Brain stumbles into a new potential long-term project

From snorkelling in crystal-clear Hebridean waters to hand-printing sea-inspired designs, Bonnie Wood’s life and art on the Isle of Islay capture the quiet beauty of island living

Released on Sir David Attenborough’s 99th birthday, Ocean is a book and film documentary that perhaps delivers his most important message of all time

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…