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Finding Your Voice: Day 9. The View.

Can you believe we’re almost done? Today is Day 9 in: “Finding Your Voice… 10 Days, 10 Concepts To Help You Find Your Photographic Voice.”  And now… The View: Wide or Macro? Today’s exploration asks how you love to see the world. The wide view? Close up, contained and focused? Or somewhere in between? If you’re like…

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Finding Your Voice: Day 7. Movement

Welcome to Day 7 in our series: “Finding Your Voice… 10 Days, 10 Concepts To Help You Find Your Photographic Voice.” Movement Today we get into an area that might seem a little more abstract to you, but I’ll give it my best shot at explaining how I see this one. Here’s the fill-in:  My favorite type…

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Finding Your Voice: Day 5. Element.

Welcome to Day 5 of our fun series: “Finding Your Voice… 10 Days, 10 Concepts To Help You Find Your Photographic Voice” My Favorite Element is _______. Let’s talk elements. I don’t ONLY mean the natural elements of wind, earth, fire and water. I mean MANY other elements that might be part of what you’re drawn to…

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Fuji: First Impressions

Mt. Fuji! Well, look what arrived the other day… the Fuji XTi and three lenses! This is the next experiment in my ongoing quest to find a mirrorless camera solution for travel and for those slightly more treacherous locations any landscape photographer wants to venture into (if you haven’t been following this thread – and…

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Canon to Sony – Here Goes!

Canon to Sony- It Begins I’ve been a Canon shooter for the past several years. But in November 2013, I went to Nashville along with a bunch of other bloggers, photographers and journalists to try the brand new, unreleased (at that time) Sony A7r, A7 and RX10. In fact, I wrote a blog piece for…

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Explore The Elements

At The Heart Of It I was invited to enter a contest for travel/photo-bloggers. I know, RIGHT? But it’s sponsored by Thomas Cook – an awesome outfit – and it’s called “Explore the Elements”.  As they put it…”It’s all about capturing and expressing the four elements through travel photography…” so I thought “What the heck?”…

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911 & Consistency

The Peculiarness of Downtown Santa Cruz  I’m sitting up at 1am. Awake. Not because I want to be… no, I’d much rather be sleeping. But here in Santa Cruz, California where I spend part of my time, there’s a contingent of… what do I call them? Street people… night crawlers… musicians (no, that’s too generous)……

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