As a photographer staying in China, I’m interested in beautiful landscapes and the way that people in the more remote parts of the country live (I’m planning a trip to Yunnan early next year – I won’t find many of those here in Shanghai). But a photographer who ventured into remote China long before me is Terri Gold. Her work caught my eye some time ago as she has created some beautiful black and white images using a digital camera converted to infrared. She has travelled to China several times, and is a witness to the immense changes that have taken place here over the last twenty years or so.

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I’ve just finished watching The Tudors on DVD with my girlfriend – all four seasons, working our way through the episodes by playing one each night. The series is brilliant on many levels, but the thing that stays with me most is the portrayal of King Henry VIII and his close friend, Charles Brandon as they changed over the decades covered by the show.

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Most Canon EOS users will probably have at least a passing familiarity with Digital Photo Professional (DPP), the free Raw processing software that comes with your camera. If you haven’t tried DPP, then maybe it’s time you did. It really is a very good piece of software, but one that’s easily overlooked. That’s presumably partly because it’s free – it’s easy to assume something that is free can’t be very good.

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