This is one of my favorite sites to visit often. Wonderful imagery and commentary that is straight from some of the most amazing shooters working in the industry. This is a recent redo of their site and the design is just as it should be. Clean, open, easily navigated… and full of content to keep you enthralled for a long time.

Sometimes the design can get in the way of the stories, but this new look with the main stories and links “above the fold” is an outstanding way of organizing the material to get us in and to the stories as fast as possible.

Here is what Dirck Halstead says in the Publisher’s Letter this issue:

Welcome to the February issue of The Digital Journalist, the online magazine for visual journalism.

After 10 years, this issue marks our first major redesign.

When we started The Digital Journalist, the idea was that we would become the 21st-century version of the old LIFE magazine. We imagined bringing you the world, the stories of the photographers who cover the great events of our time, and to lead the way to changes in technology that would redefine photojournalism.

We have done all of that. But the original concept of “magazine” has become outdated. LIFE is dead. The last stake was driven into its heart by Time Inc. last fall, when they abandoned what was an embarrassment, a “pamphlet” that was included in a limited number of Sunday newspapers.

We now need to move on.

You will note, as you look at our new format, that the “cover” has gone. I feel badly about that. I loved it, as somebody who has contributed so many covers to TIME, but it was an anachronism. We are a Web publication, and we want to allow our readers to move quickly through our screens.

Visit Digital Journalist and you will bookmark it for sure.