This interview is a few years old now, but many of Ozer’s points are timeless and the interview itself is stellar:

There are all the technical aspects of photography—composition, light, framing, aperture, shutter speed, etc.—with both the camera and the image that are really important to nail down. But images that get all the technique down without having an emotional element are missing a really big piece of what makes a great photo. There are a lot of photographers who don’t quite get that. I don’t know how you would teach that exactly, but it comes from being authentic and shooting real moments: things that are actually happening. If you’re doing posed photography, documentary photography, shooting in a studio, or street photography, you need to get those real moments, whether they’re planned out or just happening. I don’t know what it is—it’s hard to put my finger on it—but I can tell when the emotion is missing.

More often than not, you just know when a photograph turns out. Improving the amount of those “you just know” moments is the name of the game.

Be sure to check out Chris Ozer on Instagram by the way. He’s probably my favourite Instagrammer — I don’t think there’s a photo I haven’t given a heart since I discovered his work last year.

Apple released a statement on iMore today after a resurgence in the discussion over the Pencil’s lost functionality:

Apple Pencil has been a huge hit with iPad Pro users, who love it for drawing, annotating and taking notes. We believe a finger will always be the primary way users navigate on an iPad, but we understand that some customers like to use Apple Pencil for this as well and we’ve been working on ways to better implement this while maintaining compatibility during this latest beta cycle. We will add this functionality back in the next beta of iOS 9.3.

I complained about this the day after I installed the public beta, and since then I’ve wished I could go back to iOS 9.2.

I appreciate (and have gotten used to) the complimentary functionality of the Pencil, but I look forward to reverting back to the old interaction model. Inside Notability, where I use the Pencil extensively, you must switch to the navigation tool to move the page and switch back to the pen to write your notes. Since you are switching interaction models at the software level, I’ve found it to be nothing but a nuisance to have to switch at the hardware level (if you consider my finger a piece of hardware) as well.