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I was just reading David Tejada’s blog. Tejada is a professional photographer. He makes his living making pictures and he does it very well. He earns respect and admiration.
In his blog he describes his images and photo shoots in a way that is not only technically useful to photographers but is also […]

Expanding Mind

This represents my journey from being a point-and-shooter into the
world of composing good photographs.
On my side of the door, the instinct to cram every interesting thing
into the frame is strong. After all, if it catches my attention and I
get it in a picture then I have an attention-catching picture, right?
On the other side […]

If you’re like me, you use the geek’s approach to digital photography which is to take a gazillion pictures and later root through them to find a handful of good ones. A self-taught (self-teaching?) amateur photographer, I know just enough about the technicals and techniques of taking pictures to be dangerous, so among the […]

From the inane-ramblings department:
Lunch has become my favourite meal of the day.
I’ve always enjoyed reading and eating at the same time. Ever since I was a kid who got yelled at a lot for reading at the table.
There’s something complementary about the two activities. Maybe eating by itself has […]

From the social-studies department:
Have you ever noticed what happens after you go see a movie at the theatre with a group of friends? I’m talking about the post-movie discussion. For it oft seems, at least with the people I accompany, that the conversation’s usually critical.
“Everyone’s a critic” goes the old expression. I […]

From the musings department:
The Shell of Politeness
Politeness: it’s the common ground that allows people with different ideas and personalities to get along with each other. It is a filter that lets through only the safe, politically correct and non-offensive. It’s what keeps us from saying “You hare-brained dolt” to that guy on the […]

From the three of three department:
SOCIAL-LAND
P and M have bought a new house. We had a party, with pizza and beer, for all the people who would have worked hard at moving boxes and crap had P&M not paid somebody to do all the work. Pizza and beer taste better when you didn’t […]

From the dating department:
I’m a guy, and as such it is written into the fundamental rules of the universe that I will never truly understand girls. I believe there’s even a clause in there that ensures the rules I think I do understand will be almost immediately changed thereafter.
However, with all rules there are […]

From the too-much-food-is-bad-for-your-health department:
OK, so, well, diet time really should’ve been, uh, early this year or so, but hey, better late than never, right?
When I started working at my office, I weighed in at 175lb. This is a good weight for someone like me. It puts my BMI at just under 25, which is the […]

From the where-the-hell-d’ja-go? department:
No, I’m not dead. I just haven’t blogged in awhile. Okay, *two weeks*. Even for me, that’s pretty bad. BUT! (you knew there was a but coming, right?) But, I’m back in town now and my fingers are itching to get back to da blogging.
And I have a monster collection […]