WildArt judge Jiří Hřebíček shares his passion for ICM photography as a creative tool. ICM is a technique that can help express emotion. © Jiří Hřebíček With today’s cameras and lenses, it is probably easier than ever to take a technically perfect wildlife photograph. Autofocus can follow an animal’s eye, and modern equipment allows us to work in difficult conditions. But one thing is still just as difficult: putting something of ourselves into a photograph. A sharp, well-exp

For many years, my photography followed a fairly random path. I'd head off somewhere with the camera and photograph whatever happened to catch my attention. And there's nothing particularly wrong with that. Wandering around with a camera and responding to what we encounter is one of photography's great pleasures. But eventually someone gave me a simple piece of advice that fundamentally changed the way I approached my photography: Find a project. It turned out to be one of th

Image © Rob Read When photographers enter a competition, they are placing something personal into the hands of people that, in most cases, they do not know. And it has to be remembered that they are not simply uploading digital files. They are submitting photographs that may have taken hours, days or even years to create. Images that represent the experiences they have built up, a style they have developed, and a voice they have found. It's an investment that needs to be pr