My copy of Joe McNally’s “The Moment it Clicks” arrived earlier this week and I have to say, I had trouble putting it down. If you aren’t familiar with this photographer, check out his blog or website. He’s seen it all, done it all. Each spread in the book has an image and the story behind it, told to provide a little nugget of inspiration or technique that you can use in your own work. I don’t expect to be working on any Joe-Mcnally-esque projects soon (ie – I won’t be renting a trained elephant for $8000 a day) but I do plan on using his creativity as a good kick in the pants. We all get used to doing what we do and it’s nice when a book like this comes along to relight that fire and get you thinking again. Thanks, Joe.

A couple of other interesting things this week:

Adobe released its new online tool called Photoshop Express. I haven’t had a chance to look it over yet but I was made a bit leary of it when I saw this post on John Nack’s blog about the rights you grant Adobe to the images you put on the site. Hopefully they will get that sorted out soon.

And my brother pointed out this info about the new version of Apple’s Aperture software that was posted on DP Review. Sounds interesting as it allows the use of third-party plug-ins within Aperture.