Welcome to issue 87

You just can’t beat mountains for breathtaking scenery; with imposing peaks, inviting lakes and raging waterfalls, a day in a National Park is a photographer’s dream. With that it mind, I headed to Snowdonia for a yomp in the hills – and scaled Wales’s loftiest peak for good measure. You can read all about my adventurous exploits in this issue’s lead feature.

Our Apprentice gets close to nature as well, learning to capture action shots of ospreys as they pilfer fish from a trout farm. In our Big Test, meanwhile, we head to the city to put eight wide prime lenses for street photography through their paces.

Elsewhere, lifestyle photographer Holly Wren sits in the interview hot seat, Michael Freeman explains about the ‘creative triangle’, and lighting whiz Joe McNally pares it all back to a single softbox for his striking ballerina-in-the-kitchen portrait…