Amateur Photographer of the Year

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

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Round One Black & White

Once you start to see in black & white, it's almost impossible to stop, and that's why this round always attracts a huge range of creative styles. The top ten can feature anything from a moody landscape to a wildlife shot, always with the focus on the light, form and tones that makes for a winning monochrome image. The best black & white shots are considered and created, not simply converted from a colour image at the processing stage, and that's what makes our top ten, and our best camera club images, so compelling.

1 Michael Woodward, California Little Buckaroo 100pts Sony Cyber-shot, 16.4mm, 1/125sec at f/2.2, ISO 400 Michael has captured a truly decisive moment - the boy's expression, the motion blur and the setting all combine in an image that could have been taken yesterday or decades ago.