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Trying to put together a wedding that is uniquely yours can seem overwhelming at times. With so many details to decipher and so many decisions to make, many couples turn to consultants for help in creating a wedding that truly reflects their special perspective. However, the internet has made it easier than ever to customize every aspect of your wedding. Designing and ordering photo wedding invitations online is one of the best ways to put your own personal stamp on the day right from the very beginning, and there are so many different options available, you're almost guaranteed to find a style and price that works for both of you.

Start by choosing a photo that's meaningful to you. Most couples opt for a picture that shows both their faces, but you could also use a closeup of your joined hands, a silhouetted embrace, a favorite shared activity, or even a special location that's significant for you. Your photo should be available in a digital form so that it can be emailed to the company; most of these services prefer JPEGS and the resolution should be as high as possible. If you cannot provide a photo that is at least 300 dpi, you may want to reconsider photo invitations, and for best results, the photo should be 600 dpi.

Got the photo? Now decide how much emphasis you want to place on it. You may want to pair it with a verse or quotation, or have it stand alone. In either case, there will be other information that needs to appear on the invitation, and you should decide where the recipients' initial focus should be. This, in turn, will help you start to visualize your invitation before you even begin checking out various styles.

Next, consider whether you want to include any or all of the accoutrements of a formal invitation. Do you need the traditional inner envelope that is used to specify exactly who you are inviting (i.e. Mr. John Smith and Guest?) How will your recipients let you know if they plan to attend? R.S.V.P cards and envelopes are the usual method, but you may want to invite people to respond by email and save on postage. Are your wedding and reception in the same location? Will you need to insert cards inviting a smaller group of guests to one or the other? These options can make a big difference in the cost of your invitation package.

Once you have an idea of what you are looking for, visit the sites listed below. Many other sites offer additional designs and options, but these are a good place to start and will provide an excellent overview of the packages available.

Fun Foto Invitations.com
URL: http://www.photoannouncementsweddinginvitations.com/

A good choice for those seeking photo invitations on a modest budget. While a number of different layouts are available, this site basically offers “all-in-one” 5 x 7″ photo wedding invitations and envelopes. Inserts (such as maps/directions, reception cards, etc.) and R.S.V.P. cards are available at an extra charge. Up to 5 proofs are provided for approval prior to printing to ensure that your invitation will look the way you want it.

Photo Wedlock Invitations
URL: http://www.photowedlockinvitations.com

While some of the 56 different designs available at this site are very affordable, others are decidedly “upscale” and have accents such as translucent overlays or satin bows. Some include inside envelopes while others are designed as “seal-and-send” invitations that don't require envelopes. The site allows you to lay out the wording of your invitation and preview it in several different fonts or colors, which makes the decision-making process much easier. A proof will be emailed within 3 days.

Hopefully you're now on your way to creating an invitation that you and your guests will treasure for many years to come.

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Purchasing from stock photography site Fotolia just got a whole lot easier for bloggers who use WordPress, and in turn could mean more sales for photographers.

Fotolia has announced a new plugin named Microstock for stand-alone WordPress blogs.  The new plugin uses the Fotolia API (application programming interface) to allow bloggers to purchase stock images directly from Fotolia without ever having to leave their WordPress admin panel.

Once a blogger has installed and activated the plugin, and given the plugin their Fotolia credentials, the plugin will display relevant photos they may want to use in their post based on the tags they added to their post.  If they see a photo they want to purchase, it can all be done from the blogging interface, and the image will be uploaded directly to their media library of their blog, as well as being inserted into their post.

Once the image is inserted into their post, they can resize it to better fit with their writing, and the system will also rename the image to a more search engine friendly name to help the blogger with their SEO (search engine optimization).

Considering that WordPress is the most popular blogging platform currently, this could mean a wealth of more sales and new customers for photographers who sell their stock images through the Fotolia site.  The ease of shopping for images, plus removing several steps involved in preparing the images for use, could make bloggers more apt to use the service on a regular basis.

Bloggers who wish to use the plugin simply need to go to the plugins section of their site and search on “Microstock” to find the plugin, and then they can add it just like they would any other plugin.

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This one bag pretty much does it all: The Kata 3N1-33 ($145 street) could be the single bag that fits all your needs if you're unsure what bag you want — laptop, camera, video camera – and if you're torn between a backpack or sling bag configuration. Pull out the inserts and you've got a roomy padded bag for schoolbooks or for a day trip. The bright orange interior makes it easy to find things and it's a handsome bag as far as black backpacks go. As a sling it works equally well for right- and left-handed users. Drawbacks are minor: It needs bigger zipper pulls and some thick pro lenses don't comfortably.

Here's how to visualize the Kata 3N1-33: It's a largish backpack, 18 x 13 x 9 inches (HWD), divided two-thirds (cameras on bottom), one-third (stuff on top). Movable padded dividers provide eight slots for lenses, flashes, a video camera, and one camera with a long telephoto lens attached. At the back is a laptop area measuring 17 x 11 x 2 inches, which Kata says holds a 15.4-inch laptop and which actually fits some 17-inch laptops very snugly.

Remove the photo inserts, unzip and push aside the top-bottom divider, and you've got a traditional backpack. In this way it's like the LowePro Versapack 200 ($100, see review), a more easily compressible backpack that can be squished down to go in your vacation luggage as an extra bag. But the Versapack 200 has no laptop slot, making it more like the Kata 3N1-30 (details below).

The backpack straps adjust four ways: traditional backpack, backpack with straps crossed in an X in front, left sling, or right sling. As a sling, you can slide the bag from your back under your left or right side to the front, then exchange gear. Flip the dividers 180 degrees and you've got in configured for use by a left-hander, meaning the largest divider space, the one holding the camera and your longest lens, is the one you come to first.

Zippered openings on the sides let you access some gear without opening the main flap, and four snap-lock buckles provide extra security. All this is pretty slick. Other makers have this feature, such as Tamrac with the Aero Speed Pack line; it's a backpack with an opening on one side but not the other.

And most other bags don't have the back sides of the backpack straps finished in red not black. (Photo, right.) It's a minor bit of elegant design. Most backpacks are either black or gray (entirely), or finished in in-your-face ROY G BIV hues.

The Bag Could Use Bigger Zipper Pulls

I found a few aspects of the bag less than optimal. Most of the zippers are just zippers with hard metal or plastic zipper pulls. The top compartment has two fabric zipper pulls but not the four zippers securing the main, camera compartment. Other high end bags add fabric or leather zipper pulls for all main compartments so you gain more leverage, especially if it's cold outside, your fingers are numb from the cold, and you're in a hurry to change lenses.

Big Pro Lenses Barely Fit

As with most other sectioned backpack bags with three divided rows for photo gear, your lenses fit nicely if they're mainstream lenses such as a 35-70mm zoom or 75-300mm f/5.6 zoom. These are the ones you can fit in a compartment with the lens standing upright (see the lenses at the bottom of the left-hand photo above). But it's a different story if you're carrying a lens with a barrel about 3 inches wide (and a reversible lens hood that makes it almost 4 inches wide), such as the 70-200mm f/2.8 lens prized by professionals. That lens hogs the space of the partitions on either side. Sort of like the fat guy in the middle seat on your flight.

The photo above shows that very lens (70-200mm f/2.8) fitting nicely but that's without the lens shade. Trust me: It's tight in real life. You can move the dividers on one side, but then you limit what fits on the far side. Or you could put the lens shades in the top compartment. The real solution would be to swipe an inch from the top compartment, but then the photo compartment would be roomier than needed for 95% of mainstream users. Again, this is not a problem unique to Kata or this Kata bag.

Other Neat Features

Some other things that make the bag useful and may explain what it's selling for $145 not $75:

• There's a handle at the very top that you'll find super-useful for carrying the bag short distances; with other bags, you just pick it up by one of the backpack straps.

• Kata includes a rain cover for lousy weather. You store it inside the bag in its own pouch. Tamrac and Thinktank Photo do that, too, while Lowepro bags build the rain cover into the base, which I prefer because you can't lose it, but that also means you wind up putting the cover away wet sometimes.

• There's no tripod holder for serious photographers but it's available as a $20 accessory.

• There are waist straps preferred by serious backpackers – the same waist straps that get in the way of most everyone else, flop into the aisle when you fly and get tangled in the beverage cart wheels, and snag other luggage when you're unloading the trunk of your car. These slide into a sleeve so if you don't use them, they don't get into the way.

• A luggage cart sleeve makes it easy to hang the Kata 3N1-33 on a larger rolling bag. Anyone who's tried to wrap the backpack straps around a roll-aboard bag knows the bag quickly slides off and tangles in the wheels of the rolling bag.

If your needs call for slightly less photo gear, Kata makes two smaller bags. The 3N1-11 (16 x 9 x 8, $100) holds a camera, a couple lenses, and a small netbook. The midsize 3N1-22 (17 x 9 x 9) holds a camera, 3-4 lenses (or a combination of lenses, flashes, and small video cameras), and a netbook. If you like this kind of bag but don't need to carry a laptop, there are equivalent big-medium-small bags, the Kata 3N1-30, Kata 3N1-20, and Kata 3N1-10. The line is fairly new as of 2010, so if you do an online search, you may not get hits on all the bags. Keep trying.

PHOTO! Here is a picture of Jim Toth (CAA); are Jim Toth and Reese Witherspoon dating? Jim Toth’s pic with Reese Witherspoon heats up press today with another one of those classic … “cozy” … stories.

You could write these cozy stories in your sleep. They always include the source saying the same thing – something along the lines of — “they were dining”, “smiling the whole time”, “very cozy”, “totally getting into it”, for “full two hours”, “definitely having fun”.

And the source always seems to have more information about one of the two people. Which one is it this time?

Details on Jim Roth. Yes, exactly.

Writes PEOPLE: “But a friend of Toth’s says the evening was “a date,” though “nothing serious.” The handsome agent is known as a ladies’ man: “He’s enjoying the single life”.

Omar and Jeff didn’t address the most pressing needs in the offseason….pitching, speed and defense. They have put all there money on EVERYONE returning to form and in some cases their best years(Ollie and Maine) for this team to compete. Phils got better and we didn’t.
Other than Lackey being signed there was no FA that I was crazy about(this includes Bay). I would have signed Lacky and waited on Crawford in 2011-a more suited player for Citi Field.

That said I am disturbed that Omar hasn’t pulled the trigger on a trade or two.

He is paid the big bucks to be creative and we are NOT seeing it.

And don’t forget we won’t have Beltran until June.

I have never been as bummed about an upcoming season as this one.
At least the picture looks nice.

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PLAYBOY Magazine has announced that it is cancelling its proposed photo spread “The Girls of the Intifada” that was to feature naked Palestinian lovelies from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. The Los Angeles chapter of the B'nai B'rith had denounced the feature, saying that it justified terrorism and hate. The B'nai B'rith was tipped off about the feature by a PLAYBOY insider, who leaked a piece of doggerel that was going to be used to illustrate the photo spread:

We are the girls of the Intifada!
To all Jews we're definitely nada!
We'll yield not an inch of land
But there's one catch –
Only selfless Muslim martyrs
Shall colonize our snatch!

PLAYBOY editor-in-chief Philboyd Studge denied that the venerable magazine, which debuted in 1954 with a nude Marilyn Monroe as its “Sweetheart of the Month,” had any intention of making light of the tense situation in Israel with light-hearted verse.

“The reports that we intended to caption the photos with patently offensive, nay, anti-Semitic poetry are nonsense,” Studge said.

Hugh Hefner, the founder and nominal publisher of PLAYBOY, was unavailable for comment. His daughter, Christie Hefner, the president of Playboy Enterprises, issued a terse statement saying that she supported Studge and was sorry for any aspirations against Israel the feature might have caused. No criticism of Israel was intended.

Studge said that PLAYBOY never intended to entitle a proposed spread of girls from the Middle East as representing the Intifada. He believes that an internal trickster was responsible for the rumors.

“I tell you, it's not even decent doggerel, let alone poetry,” an irritated Studge complained. “The metonymy, is so meretricious…. How could anyone believe it was authentic PLAYBOY doggerel, ferkrissakes!”

Studge had been an editor at the New Yorker, were her oversaw the stories of a stable of writers including John Cheever, E.L. Doctorow and Kurt Vonnegut. He also briefly worked as an editor at Doubleday, where he was exhausted by epic editing sessions of William Safire's BrobdingnagianCivil War-themed historical novel Freedom. His exhaustion drove him back into the magazine biz.

Tapped as the fiction editor at PLAYBOY in the late '80s, Studge eventually was named editor-in-chief in 1999. Hired originally hired to bring “class” to a magazine more synonymous, during the Reagan Era, with ass, Studge has toiled to reclaim the cultural cache PLAYBOY Magazine had enjoyed in the 1960s, which it squandered a decade later, as part of the fallout from the mid-'70s Pubic Wars (not to be confused with the 17th Century “Beaver Wars” Century).

An anonymous source at the Playboy Building in Chicago said that Hugh Hefner's attempts to mediate the dust-up carried little water. The basic thrust of Hefner's attempt at negotiation, an offer to run a countervailing “Girls of the B'nai B'rith” was rejected out of hand as “preposterous.”

“Do you think the defamed want to be further defamed by the defamer,” the source said, characterizing the attitude of the Anti-Defamation League official who handled the imbroglio.

The Playboy Philosophy & The Western World

Liz Smith was the latest to address the controversy. A friend of Hugh Hefner's, she asked his opinion of the Middle Eastern situation during a general discussion of the publisher's own Playboy Philosophy in its sixth decade. It's Hefner's contention that his philosophy changed America, and thus the Western World. As he seeks new markets for PLAYBOY and its offshoots, the online Web Site and its cable programming, he has become a proselytizer for the worldwide benefits of the Playboy Philosophy loosening up the tigher-assed corners of the world.

Smith was careful to avoid any mention of the “Girls of the Intifada” ruckus, but the issue definite was addressed. Hef blamed the problems in the Middle East squarely on religion.

“One of the problems with organized religion is that it has always kept women in a second-class position,” the PLAYBOY publisher said. “They have been viewed as the daughters of Eve.”

Speaking as to how the puritanical Muslim countries have put into effect extraordinary means to control their sexuality of their women, Hefner said that they must realize that, “Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy.

As for the rift between the Muslims and the Jews, he contends, “We're separated by our myths.”

Did Hef think he was going to heaven or hell when he died, seeing as that for the past 50-odd years, he has lived in his own version of heaven-on-earth.

“I've always felt I was on the side of the angels,” he concluded.

from: Negashs Weblog

First no one was interested in Paul Volcker.

Then Obama got everyone either excited or enraged about the Volcker Rule and he became famous.

Now all people care about is taking a photo with him.

“Don't congratulate me,” he told Sondra Gotlieb from the Vancouver Post.

“I'm just a photo op.”

Ok, so he's humble.

He likes to order a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken. He enjoys salmon fishing in Canada and a plate of oysters on his birthday.

And sadly, nobody understands him, or wants to hear his ideas about Detriot.

“All they wanted was my picture for the press.”

At least it's kind of hard to take a photo of him. He's really tall – 6'7''.

This one bag pretty much does it all: The Kata 3N1-33 ($145 street) could be the single bag that fits all your needs if you're unsure what bag you want — laptop, camera, video camera – and if you're torn between a backpack or sling bag configuration. Pull out the inserts and you've got a roomy padded bag for schoolbooks or for a day trip. The bright orange interior makes it easy to find things and it's a handsome bag as far as black backpacks go. As a sling it works equally well for right- and left-handed users. Drawbacks are minor: It needs bigger zipper pulls and some thick pro lenses don't comfortably.

Here's how to visualize the Kata 3N1-33: It's a largish backpack, 18 x 13 x 9 inches (HWD), divided two-thirds (cameras on bottom), one-third (stuff on top). Movable padded dividers provide eight slots for lenses, flashes, a video camera, and one camera with a long telephoto lens attached. At the back is a laptop area measuring 17 x 11 x 2 inches, which Kata says holds a 15.4-inch laptop and which actually fits some 17-inch laptops very snugly.

Remove the photo inserts, unzip and push aside the top-bottom divider, and you've got a traditional backpack. In this way it's like the LowePro Versapack 200 ($100, see review), a more easily compressible backpack that can be squished down to go in your vacation luggage as an extra bag. But the Versapack 200 has no laptop slot, making it more like the Kata 3N1-30 (details below).

The backpack straps adjust four ways: traditional backpack, backpack with straps crossed in an X in front, left sling, or right sling. As a sling, you can slide the bag from your back under your left or right side to the front, then exchange gear. Flip the dividers 180 degrees and you've got in configured for use by a left-hander, meaning the largest divider space, the one holding the camera and your longest lens, is the one you come to first.

Zippered openings on the sides let you access some gear without opening the main flap, and four snap-lock buckles provide extra security. All this is pretty slick. Other makers have this feature, such as Tamrac with the Aero Speed Pack line; it's a backpack with an opening on one side but not the other.

And most other bags don't have the back sides of the backpack straps finished in red not black. (Photo, right.) It's a minor bit of elegant design. Most backpacks are either black or gray (entirely), or finished in in-your-face ROY G BIV hues.

The Bag Could Use Bigger Zipper Pulls

I found a few aspects of the bag less than optimal. Most of the zippers are just zippers with hard metal or plastic zipper pulls. The top compartment has two fabric zipper pulls but not the four zippers securing the main, camera compartment. Other high end bags add fabric or leather zipper pulls for all main compartments so you gain more leverage, especially if it's cold outside, your fingers are numb from the cold, and you're in a hurry to change lenses.

Big Pro Lenses Barely Fit

As with most other sectioned backpack bags with three divided rows for photo gear, your lenses fit nicely if they're mainstream lenses such as a 35-70mm zoom or 75-300mm f/5.6 zoom. These are the ones you can fit in a compartment with the lens standing upright (see the lenses at the bottom of the left-hand photo above). But it's a different story if you're carrying a lens with a barrel about 3 inches wide (and a reversible lens hood that makes it almost 4 inches wide), such as the 70-200mm f/2.8 lens prized by professionals. That lens hogs the space of the partitions on either side. Sort of like the fat guy in the middle seat on your flight.

The photo above shows that very lens (70-200mm f/2.8) fitting nicely but that's without the lens shade. Trust me: It's tight in real life. You can move the dividers on one side, but then you limit what fits on the far side. Or you could put the lens shades in the top compartment. The real solution would be to swipe an inch from the top compartment, but then the photo compartment would be roomier than needed for 95% of mainstream users. Again, this is not a problem unique to Kata or this Kata bag.

Other Neat Features

Some other things that make the bag useful and may explain what it's selling for $145 not $75:

• There's a handle at the very top that you'll find super-useful for carrying the bag short distances; with other bags, you just pick it up by one of the backpack straps.

• Kata includes a rain cover for lousy weather. You store it inside the bag in its own pouch. Tamrac and Thinktank Photo do that, too, while Lowepro bags build the rain cover into the base, which I prefer because you can't lose it, but that also means you wind up putting the cover away wet sometimes.

• There's no tripod holder for serious photographers but it's available as a $20 accessory.

• There are waist straps preferred by serious backpackers – the same waist straps that get in the way of most everyone else, flop into the aisle when you fly and get tangled in the beverage cart wheels, and snag other luggage when you're unloading the trunk of your car. These slide into a sleeve so if you don't use them, they don't get into the way.

• A luggage cart sleeve makes it easy to hang the Kata 3N1-33 on a larger rolling bag. Anyone who's tried to wrap the backpack straps around a roll-aboard bag knows the bag quickly slides off and tangles in the wheels of the rolling bag.

If your needs call for slightly less photo gear, Kata makes two smaller bags. The 3N1-11 (16 x 9 x 8, $100) holds a camera, a couple lenses, and a small netbook. The midsize 3N1-22 (17 x 9 x 9) holds a camera, 3-4 lenses (or a combination of lenses, flashes, and small video cameras), and a netbook. If you like this kind of bag but don't need to carry a laptop, there are equivalent big-medium-small bags, the Kata 3N1-30, Kata 3N1-20, and Kata 3N1-10. The line is fairly new as of 2010, so if you do an online search, you may not get hits on all the bags. Keep trying.

Get ready playboys, because we will be having Ninel Conde for tonight. Here are some of the photos of the sexy Ninel Conde. She was born on September 29, 1970. As a Mexican actress, model and Latin Grammy Award nominated recording artist, she has been appearing in the following movies such as Rebelde and Fuego En La Sangre. And the news came in that she will be posing in for Playboy. If you are looking for photos in the Ninel Conde Playboy series, check it out right below. Hugh Hefner is offering Ninel Conde $100,000 to pose for Playboy’s next issue. Below is one of the pictures for the Playboy Magazine. You can check out more through the source list after the picture of Ninel Conde below.

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Get ready playboys, because we will be having Ninel Conde for tonight. Here are some of the photos of the sexy Ninel Conde. She was born on September 29, 1970. As a Mexican actress, model and Latin Grammy Award nominated recording artist, she has been appearing in the following movies such as Rebelde and Fuego En La Sangre. And the news came in that she will be posing in for Playboy. If you are looking for photos in the Ninel Conde Playboy series, check it out right below. Hugh Hefner is offering Ninel Conde $100,000 to pose for Playboy’s next issue. Below is one of the pictures for the Playboy Magazine. You can check out more through the source list after the picture of Ninel Conde below.

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Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC, student photographer Chris Osborne hopes his experience in sports photography will take him to the next level – his goal for every shot is “Sports Illustrated Cover”.

Osborne explains how a sixth sense is valuable in sports photography, but without the basics of photography, you will still miss the shot.

What first attracted you to photography? How did you get started yourself?

Photography was something I could do since I have always been able to see how I wanted things to look. I have started and restarted a few times. My first camera was a 110 mm back in 3rd grade. I moved onto other interests until college, where I got a Coolpix L3. It is good for general use, but trying to shoot basketball did not work at all. So, I purchased a Rebel XT and have not looked back.

What photographers – well known or unknown – inspire you?

Beyond the sports photography culture, two unknowns got me where I am today. The first is my sister. She says that I stole her interest in photography and will not hold back any criticism of my work. The second is Paul, a fellow photographer at the school paper. After seeing one of his pictures in the paper and not liking it at all, I decided that I could do a better job and filled the other sports photographer position. Only later did I learn that an editor and not Paul made the cropping decisions.

What equipment do you use? Is there a certain piece of gear you could not live without?

I am currently using a Canon Rebel XT with the kit 18-55mm lens, Canon 50mm 1.8, Canon 75-300 4-5.6, and a Tamron 28-200mm 4/5.6. My only other add ons are a Canon battery grip and a polarizing filter. Being on a college student budget, I do not buy new equipment unless I will really use it. But if I had to pick one item that I couldn't live without it would be the battery grip. I missed too many shots by flipping the camera the wrong way to shoot vertically or simply missing the shutter button.

Do you have any goals in mind with your photography?

For my sports shot, there is always one basic thought running through my mind – Sports Illustrated cover. I would love to have one someday. For everything else, I think about if I could see the shot hanging on someone's wall. If I cannot, I find something that fits that requirement.

What do you feel are your strengths and weaknesses in sports photography?

As much as I hate to say this one, one of my strengths is that I have a camera that can handle the speed and lighting at college sporting events. Beyond that, I am able to have a personal relationship with most of the athletes and am able to predict fairly well what is about to happen. My weaknesses are that I am still too slow at times to get the shot that I want, despite knowing almost exactly what is about to happen and that I have a tendency to tilt my camera. Also, where the Winthrop athletic department lets me go during games limits what I am able to shoot.

What does it take to be a quality sports photographer?

To be a quality sports photographer, you have to be a little bit psychic. By that I mean that you need to be able to know where to point the camera to get the shot. Some sports are easier than others. What sports do you like to shoot? I like to shoot basketball and volleyball most. They are high intensity and usually have something new to get every time. I like baseball the least because most of the shots are just excessively similar.

What post-processing tools/software do you use? How much does that influence your photography?

When I want better control over the photograph, I will use Photoshop 7 or Gimp depending on which operating system I am working under (desktop runs XP while laptop is in the process of switching over to Linux). I use Picasa for basic editing such as cropping and overall brightness/contrast. I sacrifice the overall control for speed when I have to turn things in to the school paper.

What advice would you give new photographers?

A) Don't get discouraged. Photography is an art, which means you will have to work at it.
B) A good photographer can overcome bad equipment, and good equipment will not make you a good photographer.
C) Less time editing your photographs means you'll have more time to take more, so get things right in camera as much as possible.
D) Try to see all of what there is to shoot, not just the stereotypical snapshots that everyone else will find.

Check out Osborne's photography at http://sapidexistence.com

from: Amares Weblog
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BARRINGTON, R.I. — Barrington police have released a photo of a Providence man they are seeking in connection with a stabbing Tuesday during a domestic altercation in a condominium complex on Sweet Briar Drive.

The police are seeking Antone Medeiros, 28, whose last known address was 93 Touro St., Providence. Witnesses told the police that Medeiros forced his way into his wife's apartment on Sweet Briar Drive and began attacking her. An unidentified man tried to intervene, witnesses say, and was stabbed four or five times, after Medeiros pursued him outside the residence, the police were told.

Police Chief John LaCross Tuesday declined to give the exact address of the apartment or the names of the two victims, neither of whom was believed to have suffered life-threatening injuries.

The police say Medeiros was born in 1981, has brown hair, stands 5 feet, 10 inches tall, and weighs about 200 pounds.

The police said they had already been seeking Medeiros, based on a warrant for domestic offenses dating to Jan. 28.

Officers said they hoped Medeiros would turn himself in, and asked that anyone with information call a tip line (401) 437-3933.

– with reports from Thomas J. Morgan, Journal staff writer

Bows to Saudi princes and Japanese emperors and Tampa mayors but NOT to Catholic popes, while ignoring the Dalai Lama. I assume, then, he reveres only government figures. No wonder he hasn't chosen a District of Criminals church yet; he thinks he lives in one.

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The ever glamorous Kate Moss looked chic and sassy as she made the party rounds back home in London. Keeping things simple, she wore a structured black tuxedo blazer over a fitted cream mini dress, black opaque tights and patent leather Louboutin pumps, adding just the right amount of edge with her extended catlike eyeliner.

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If you write articles, own a blog or a website, or even a newsletter you'll probably find yourself eventually looking for free stock images, visuals or photos. Some blog owners and writers use images that are copyrighted, which can get you in trouble and even, in extreme cases, cause a lawsuit to be filed against you – which you obviously don't want to happen. So if you do need free stock images, visuals or photographs for your online work, where should you go online to get them? Try these sources for free stock images, visuals and photographs and your articles, blog, website or newsletter will look even better.

FreeStockPhotos.com – You can use photos from this website for free for both personal and commercial use. You just have to make sure you list the photographer's name, and put the name of the website, FreeStockPhotos.com near the photograph you've used. And, of course, you can't sell the photograph to somebody else. Their categories of pictures are a bit limited but they have a good selection of photos and stock images in categories such as Animals, Christian, Egypt, Israel, Near East, Plants, Rome, Scenery and Sky.

Wikimedia Commons – At Wikimedia Commons, you can get free images and pictures, sound files and even some multimedia files for free use. All of the content is either in the public domain or released under a GNU Free Documentation License, and they have millions of images available in hundreds of thousands of categories. I've used photographs of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, cities in England, flowers, cups of coffee, garden gnomes, flags, food and a lot more subjects. I particularly like the photos that are taken by government employees as they are all usually in the public domain, and are of subjects you may not have access to otherwise. All you have to do is make sure you put the name of the photographer, videographer or picture creator near the file you choose to use, and mention what license it's been released under.

SXC – SXC has over 393,000 photographs available for use. They also have a great selection of tutorials on things like Coloring a Drawing, Getting Flawless Skin on Photos, How to Colorize a Black and White Image, and Making Reflections. They also have photos and images in a few hundred categories from continents to cities, animals to architecture, medical to computers. They have standard restrictions, which you can read at the bottom of every photo or image available, as well as photos from photographers who want more restrictions to be applied to their photos. Overall, I think the quality of photos is better on Wikimedia Commons, but SXC does have some unusual photos, so check both sources before you decide.

FreePhotos.com – You can use any of the more than 1,600 photos available on FreePhotos.com as long as you credit the photographer and do a link back to the website. They have photos in categories such as Asia, Fast Food, Motorcycles, Cameras, Musical Instruments, Animals, Sports and even Artistic and Texture. You do have to sign up for a membership to be able to download or upload, but it's a free membership.

PhotoRogue.com – PhotoRogue is really cool because, if you want a photograph but can't find it, you can make a request and a photographer might just go out and get it for you. You can be quite specific too. There are currently 94 albums with almost 700 photographs requested by people. Some of the requests include photographs of the coffee shop in the Elliot Bay Book Co, because it was supposedly used for the coffee shop on Frasier, and comparisons between milk moustaches and Guinness moustaches.

These are just five of the many websites out there where you can get free stock photo images and visuals for use on blogs, articles, newsletters and more. Check out these sources and if, by any chance, you can't find what you're looking for, do a web search for free photos. There's lots of stuff out there. Just make sure you read the requirements for downloading and credit the photographer and website where necessary.

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