Book excerpt: Digital Photo magazine is the essential publication both for amateur and for professional digital photographers. With its in-depth guides to the best equipment, the most innovative methods, and with original competitions and briefs, Digital Photo encourages even beginners to create beautiful digital images. In association with Digital Photo, here are 52 projects, providing a year's worth of weekends creating your best photography yet. The featured projects are simple enough to complete in a weekend, but will result in beautiful images every time. The subjects covered include night photography (including fireworks and the night sky), portraits in natural light, the natural world, holiday gatherings, city lights, reflections, motion blurs, capturing colour, special effects, abstracts, architecture, stormy weather and sunsets. With invaluable advice and fully illustrated step-by-step guides to each project, 52 Weekend Digital Photo Projects is the ultimate chance to create digital images that look professional and show off your creative skills at their very best. Photography is not only a wonderful way of documenting the world around us, but a fun way to express creative talent - and this collection of projects is the perfect way to inspire keen photographers everywhere to push their skills to the limit.