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Today’s Shutterbug Photo of the Day is this regal photo of an eagle captured by Lorenzo Cassina. Cassina shot the image with a Nikon D80 and Sigma 70-300mm lens. His settings were 1/100 sec, f/5.6, ISO 400.

An American Odyssey (Taschen 2014) is a spectacular photo scrapbook voyage across turn-of-the-century America. Gathered from the 19^th and early 20^th century “color” print and picture postcard collection of photographer Marc Walter, with the assistance of documentarian Sabine Arqué, it is a huge 612-page coffee table book that tips the scales at nearly 16 pounds.

Today’s Shutterbug Photo of the Day is this splendid image of nature captured by Douglas Croft. Croft shot the image in the Big Sur region of the Central Coast of California.

If there is any one technical aspect that has not changed in the transition from film to digital it’s been the pursuit of “perfect” exposure, which is ultimately dictated by the latitude of the capture medium. Latitude is the extent to which film or an imaging chip can be overexposed or underexposed and still produce an acceptable result.