Today's Post by Joe Farace “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons You've got questions about books? I've got some answers. Q: Why haven't you written any new...

I's not just National Authors Day today, it's also National Fountain Pen day, which somehow seems fitting because many writers still produce their books by writing them longhand. One of the reasons I own two Conklin fountain pens is because it was Mark Twain's...

Tamron’s 14-150mm Di III was the company’s first lens designed for the Micro Four-thirds system. When originally announced, this lens was supposed to feature built-in mage stabilization but over the course of its development —there’s lots of in-body stabilization in this format—this feature was removed.

Light has four major qualities: quality, quantity, color and direction. No matter what exposure mode you select on your DSLR or mirrorless camera, seeing how light in a scene affects a photograph’s overall impact is the key to mastering the art of proper exposure. Yes, its just as much art as it is science because the final exposure controls the image’s mood.

And the truth is that for 90% of photographs that you’ll make, any one of your camera’s automatic modes do a fantastic job in producing correct exposures but its those last 10% that’ll kill you.