Just in time for the gliding comp season, TomTom has updated their navigation software for the iPhone and it can now take GPS coordinates.

The big sale is still on though quite a few items are gone now, like the Nikon D3, 200-400/4VR, 70-200/2.8VRII and 24-70/2.8.
Still on the list are items like the Nikon 14-24/2.8, Gitzo 6x Carbon Tripod GT3540LS, and loads more.
For a complete list check out the 4 Sale page in the Pages menu above.

Check out what’s for sale by going to the 4 Sale page in the Pages menu above.
Items include Nikon D3, Nikon 200-400/4 VR, Nikon 70-200/2.8 VRII, Nikon 14-24/2.8 and loads more

Got a stuck filter? Keep bumping the focus ring? Filter boxes rattling around in the camera bag?
Not a problem, there’s an easy solution that doesn’t have to cost you a thing. Just keep your eyes open for where the mail man’s been and get some free rubber bands.
Wrapped around a stuck filter the rubber band [...]

Winter soaring of the Black Mountains in Wales.

Photoshop CS5 has been released and the question which version to get is once again on the table.
For photographers it can be very hard to find any good reasons at all to go the Extended route as it would seem that all the photo features are supported by the standard edition. Quite so, but one [...]

Pen Y Fan and Corn Du, the highest points in the Breacon Beacons.

When shooting stitched panoramas it helps if one can rotate the camera around the nodal point of the lens to avoid parallax problems, and a lot of white space to crop away in the seams.
Without going in to detail about finding the nodal point there’s an easy way to achieve really good [...]

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The image above was found when clearing out the old site, it shows me shooting the sunset at 13:07 on 27 Dec 2004, I had probably just finished shooting the sunrise at that point…