Ian Webb, January winner and 2018 runner-upPekutatan beach, Bali. About an hour before sunset kids would gather to play football and stay until dark. I photographed them over several days, hoping to get a nice sunset silhouette. That never came but there were glimpses of it and lots of storm clouds. MICK RYAN, JUDGE: It is the storytelling aspect that first attracted me to this image; there is so much going on that makes you linger. The photographer has converted the image to monotone a master

Pekutatan beach

When a candid street shot goes right

His photograph captures the physicality of the hikers’ slow trudge up the mountainside

The tax was seen as deeply unfair – a flat rate that penalised the poor and favoured the rich

Heather Watson

boulders have broken away from the area’s famous screes – steep slopes with loose stones – foregrounded by the Guardian photographer Don McPhee

This photograph was taken in Rome in 2009 when Messi inspired Barcelona to a 2-0 victory over Manchester United in the Champions League final

6 Copa del Rey

On Christmas Eve in Patagonia I had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to get close to the Perito Moreno glacier - and enjoy a glass of whisky with the purest ice on Earth

“He loved it here

Men play chess while submerged in the hot

from sleepy Cotswolds villages to the horse races and Wimbledon – has captured the essence of British holidaymakers at the seaside: clothes hitched