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Getty Images buys WireImage. Makes sense seeing as everyone seems to be obsessed with celebrity these days.

There’ll be a lunar eclipse on Saturday 3rd March, 2007 and NASA has a good writeup of what to expect. Update: More info from the BBC.

Canon announced the EOS-1D Mark III last week. It sounds vaguely like a spaceship from the classic computer game Elite but is in fact their flagship digital camera, designed primarily for sports & wildlife photographers. Specs of note include a 10.1 megapixel APS-H size (1.3x) CMOS sensor, 10FPS with a 110 large-JPEG or 30 RAW image buffer, overhauled 45-point AF system with 19 cross-type sensors, a live-view LCD and an integrated cleaning system. If you know what all that means, you no doubt want one — I know I do — but the estimated £3050GBP price tag might put you off unless you really need it.

How to Make Blink-Free Group Photos is a remarkably clever guide to making sure you have at least one photo where no-one is blinking. Here’s the lowdown: “For groups of less than 20 people, divide the number of people in the group by 3 if the light is good or by 2 if the light is bad.” Click the link for a few more good tips.

PhotoRec is a great bit of open-source data recovery software. It’s cross-platform and runs on Windows, Mac and Linux. It’ll recover lost files including photos, video, documents and archives from just about any media. It ignores the filesystem and goes straight to the underlying data, so will still work on cards that have been severely damaged or reformatted. It won’t attempt to write to the media you’re trying to recover from, so is safe to use. It also has a great companion program, TestDisk, whose job is to recover lost partitions as well as making non-booting disks bootable again.

The Isle of Man has officially become a Fairtrade island. Excellent.

Adobe recently released version 1.0 of their wonderful digital camera workflow software Lightroom and Ars Technica have the lowdown with a thoroughly comprehensive review. If you’re a keen amateur or professional photographer then I’d recommend giving it a look, it’s a great bit of software.