Seagulls, lettuce patches and wintry roads in this week's edition of Photocrowd's Instagram Friday.

Photocrowd winner Katie Dix talks about the shot that got her into photography and how trial and error are the best way forward.

We pick our 10 favourite Instagram images of the week.

We continue our series of interviews with Photocrowd members. Here Cathy Cooper talks about her love of little Cyclops cameras, poetry-inspired photography and how Photocrowd helped her work get accepted for an exhibition.

This month’s Photocrowd Assignment – Going off-grid – challenges you to deliberately break the Rule of Thirds. And with good reason! Photocrowd co-founder Mike Betts discusses ways to approach it.

Photocrowd embraces mobile phone photography.

We're launching our new blog with an interview with Chris Miles, in which he talks green printing, his love of Saul Leiter and how Photocrowd helps his motivation.