Just a while back, the publication called ‘Popular Photography‘ held a photo contest where the two winners obviously had a large amount of Photoshop manipulation in their images. When the rest of the contestants were asked for their opinion on this matter, they obviously felt that any type of photo manipulation is not real photography. If you spent enough time in photography communities as I have you will realize that there are a large group of photographers that believe that true photography must capture reality without alterations. These people are very traditional, and want to stick to traditional practices as much as possible. But are they really just holding onto a ideal that doesn’t hold water?

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A professional photographer has always been highly dependent on the equipment he carries, which leads most people to believe that it’s the equipment that makes the photographer. The reality is that even a semi professional entry level camera has so many bells and whistles that the average photography enthusiast will probably never even touch most of them. They probably don’t even have time to read one page in the manual, and so are limited to pointing, zooming, auto focusing, and shoot. Although he looks like he’s holding professional equipment, he has no clue how to utilize it to the fullest potential, and this is why Uncle Bob has been such an eye sore to a lot of professional photographers today. Uncle Bob by definitions is any person outside an industry who is performing a service in order to save money for themselves or for others. If you’ve ever seen someone at a wedding who looks like a photographer but has a camera that doesn’t quite look professional, that person is probably Uncle Bob.

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Programming is an exercise in mental stamina, and a developer may have to hold intense concentration for hours at a time. This can cause unnecessary stress for the programmer, and also physical pains, such as a sore wrist, back aches, and eye strain. Unless you are the type that eats, and breathes programming, you will probably feel the wear and tear of this career over time. But there are a few programming stress management tips I could give that can make your days go by smoothly.

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Some of the greatest empires in society has been built on cheap labor. 25% of the Roman Empire, and 30% - 40% of Italy were slaves. During the peak of the United Kingdoms power, 5% of their population were slaves. And for those of us who grew up in America, we’ve all heard about the horrors of slavery time and time again. Slavery were vital economic pillars of society that allowed these nations to grow in power. Although slavery has been abolished in most developed countries today, with all the loop holes, modern day slavery still exists in the form of outsourcing, migrant workers, and something called an “Internship”.

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Math has never been my strongest subject, although I should be good at it, considering I hold a Computer Science Degree.  Still this didn’t stop me from learning a valuable lesson in  my 9th grade Algebra class, which had saved me from a lifetime of indentured servitude.  It’s called compound interest, and here is the equation on how to calculate interest,

For the last few months a lot of things have happened to me. I got married, started a new job at Michael Stars, I ended up taking some clients on for my side business, and I’m trying to promote this website. When you are doing this many things, you are bound to crash and burn. I pretty much sleep later than I should be sleeping, and I wake up feeling like my eyes are on fire. It’s not pleasant to be feeling this way, and on top of that I haven’t been working out as much as I should or taking care of myself very well. I even think that my hygiene hasn’t been up to par lately.

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The world is in crisis, we are having a population explosion, and it’s wreaking havoc on our environment. Did you know that in the 1950’s there were only about 2.5 billion people on this earth. Out of all the millenniums of human history we were left with only 2.5 billion people in the 1950’s. In only 60 years from that time we are now stuck with 6.5 billion people, and that number keeps growing. With this many people on earth, we are crowding out every other living species, human suffering has increased, and because of our lust for energy we are warming up this planet like a microwave. I’m afraid for this planets survival, so when I hear a story about a women (Nadia Sulaiman) from Bellflower California having 8 babies, with 6 children prior, I get real upset. I feel this women should have no support from anyone, and should live with her children in a homeless shelter. Irresponsibility such as this should not be rewarded.

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Dear Diary,

On January 18th 2009, I was coming home from church after teaching my Sunday School class. While I was driving back home my tires popped, and I started losing control of my steering wheel.  The car directly behind me was tailgaiting and it nearly hit me while I was trying to change lanes.  I was lucky though, because there weren’t many cars on the road, but if it was a regular weekday then I probably wouldn’t be writing this right now.  So after I parked the car, I called my husband, and he ended up running 2 miles from our apartment to rescue me *haha*. I’m such a lucky girl.

I recently read this blog from homemakerbarbi.com and it was describing retro 80’s baby clothes.

The website is called Retro Babies, and they have the cutest clothes for babies at the site. If you are a child of the 80’s and you love to live life through your children, then check out retro baby. This will give you a good trip down memory lane, without the side effect of feeling old.

Retro Baby

We just came from the rose parade and saw this message to the police in one of our photo’s.

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