So, the election is in full swing, and part and parcel of any election is the various items of propagandist ephemera that float about; fliers jammed uselessly into letterboxes and the fists of passers-by, posters festooning our lampposts.

When it comes to posters, however, I can't help despair.

I wrote an open letter to the Facebook admins. In the short time since writing I've noticed two fairly significant bugs with the system (I think to do with some jQuery-like functionality associated with the in-app chat system1), and one significant omission - users now can't access the Pages of which they have previously declared themselves to be fans. This last one seems very very stupid for a platform that supposedly makes a lot of money from advertising revenue, which is - in part - based on the Pages model. I have absolutely no idea how this UI overhaul made it out of testing. The fact that there's no testing visibility only serves to increase the them-and-us feeling that has been rising on Facebook steadily in the last year or so.

As a photographer, you always fantasise about the perfect shot. Whatever your personal interest is, whether lanscapes, portraits, wildlife, you always imagine what it'd be like to have a perfect confluence of the factors that make a great photo.

I've been a fan of Paul Nicklen's for a while, but this story just took my breath away. Watch it. Love it.