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Tired of looking at blurry images on the T.V?  Trying to get a good look at a picture that makes up the dots on a printed paper? And fed up at tiny little images on the online edition?

Have a look at this:

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/02/bushfires_in_victoria_australi.html

They have an RSS feed for their Big Picture series and it is well worth subscribing to.

Time and time again the photos they pick are utterly incredible. Not least of all because they are of a decent resolution and of amazing quality but they are extremely thought provoking. They seem to provide the missing link for where the printed media meets the internet. (Despite that fact that  the images are often from the same sources) However their Big Picture series always takes the form of a photo essay, which I reckon is the feature’s strongest point: Pictures can speak more than words.

The series linked to above are of the recent bush fires in Australia and pictures really do speak more than words in this case. And certainly speak more than any 226px × 180px image that doesn’t link to a more detailed picture can. Or for that matter a 102px × 130px picture that links to nothing on a site that is optimised for a resolution of 640 x 480 ever can.