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The term “decisive moment” is used in countless fields of study. Absolutely everything that relies on human say-so relies on our ability to accurately choose the moment when we act.

You might be able to call a photographer who clings to the decisive moment careful, circumspect, thoughtful or wise. That is, a photographer whose impulses are so finely tuned that rather than being random bursts of passion, they are truly moments of decision: decisive moments. And although Henri Cartier-Bresson utilized his ability to foresee these moments in high action street photography, I find them in other ways as a portrait photographer. The twinkle in a child’s eye. The moment where a smile turns from fake to real. The moment where a groom is saying everything he feels for his bride on his face. These, too, are fleeting moments that require a calm, decisive photographer.

Help is broken in Aperture 3 because Apple, in their infinite wisdom, disabled JavaScript (by default) for the HelpViewer application on Snow Leopard (but not on Leopard or Tiger). This has nothing to do with whether or not JavaScript is enabled in "Safari" This lack of JavaScript also affects Finder and iTunes help, although to a lesser degree. Those apps only use JavaScript in their "Index" pages (which is why the alphabet bar in Finder or iTunes help doesn't work on Snow Leopard). You can re-enable JavaScript for "HelpViewer.app" by typing the following into the Terminal window: defaults write com.apple.helpviewer WebKitJavaScriptEnabled -bool yes