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“Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.” Don McCullin, Sleeping with Ghosts: A Life’s Work in Photography

Increasingly annoyed by performance problems plaguing Aperture, I ponder the age-old question.

As Britain gets used to regular temperatures of less than -10, and we run out of salt and grit, the University of Dundee Satellite Receiving Station has downloaded an amazing image from the NASA Terra satellite, showing the extent of the cold weather.

Canon’s original EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM lens was one I coveted for many years. Eventually I managed to save up enough to buy a second-hand one, and I was amazed at the combination of speed, sharpness and weight!

How do you make the biggest digital photograph in the world? With a lot of photos and computing power.

Don’t run out of juice when the temperature drops.

After being design director and then editor-in-chief at JPG magazine, you can be sure that when Laura Brunow Miner comes up with a new project, it will be something special.

Want to take more photos, but short of inspiration? Photo Friday is proof that a well-executed, simple idea beats all your fancy web 2.0 stuff hands down.