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	<description>...join me in the search for the  simplicity found on the other side of complexity!</description>
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		<title>Artist&#8217;s studio shoot &#8211; Ria de Neeve</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite commissions is shooting an artist working in their studio. The best results are when an artist lets me come in for a couple hours when they are working on one or more pieces. We start out with more talking than shooting. Pretty soon  the artist forgets about the camera (not always [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aheld.com/2010/07/artists-studio-shoot-ria-de-neeve/</link>
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		<title>Surprise subject appears in photo&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I was climbing Blue Mountain, just west of Missoula, MT with our dog Angua. I ran into some great flowers and took a number of macro shots using extension tubes.
It wasn&#8217;t until I was doing post processing this morning that I found an added bonus. I was doing sharpness checks at 1:1 in Lightroom [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aheld.com/2010/07/surprise-subject-in-shoot/</link>
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		<title>Shooting Art Part 2 – Camera Bodies and Resolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When people learn I shoot art professionally one of the first three questions they ask is “How high a resolution camera do I need to do that?” (The other two top questions are – ‘Will people really pay for that?’ and ‘How much do you charge?’)
My answer to their first question is a question: “How [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aheld.com/2010/07/shooting-art-part-2-%e2%80%93-camera-bodies-and-resolution/</link>
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		<title>Health Insurance Quotes – birth of a new scam?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you self-employed and using the web to look for health insurance you can afford? Be careful or you could get &#8211; or give &#8211; much more than you bargain for.
Self-employed means self-insured. Self-employed people (like me)  have no employer to pay – and hide from us &#8211; the true cost of our health insurance. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aheld.com/2010/07/health-insurance-quotes-%e2%80%93-birth-of-a-new-scam/</link>
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		<title>The Fourth of July, 2010.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A day for celebrating our independence in the United States. Why do we HAVE that independence? Because a hell of a lot of people gave up a lot, and continue to give up a lot, to see that we keep it.
I extend my thanks for the democracy I enjoy to the people who made it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aheld.com/2010/07/368/</link>
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		<title>Shooting Art</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No, this is not about great art shots of nature and/or abstraction. I love taking those, and I frequently spend my free hours seeking them out. But these days it’s tough paying the bills with art photos. On the other hand sculptors and painters often need photos of their Art for their business selling art. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aheld.com/2010/07/shooting-art/</link>
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		<title>Sunrise and Sunset table &#8211; done better</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are several good sunrise/sunset calculators available, some of which you can print out in table format. But The Photographer&#8217;s Ephemeris takes this a giant step forward. Tied to Google mapping it lets you pick any location on the globe. 
As expected, it gives you sunrise/sunset, and moonrise/moonset, plus twilight times for each day (Civil, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aheld.com/2010/06/sunrise-and-sunset-table-done-better/</link>
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		<title>Graduation &#8211; Stodgy is NOT a requirement!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At a time when it seems like so many things have gotten worse with age, I was thrilled to experience something that has improved immeasurably. Thursday evening, June 10th,  I attended the graduation ceremony for the University of Washington School of Art. You know – cap and gown, stodgy people saying stodgy things far [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aheld.com/2010/06/graduation-stodgy-is-not-a-requirement/</link>
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		<title>Fun with Photoshop &#8211; a few examples</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Photoshop gives you the power to do things to photos that can make anyone with with a sense of taste beyond the one found in their mouth cringe. This do-everything monster does have a bit of a learning curve (which sometimes feels more like a WALL as you struggle through it&#8230;).  But once you get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aheld.com/2010/05/fun-with-photoshop/</link>
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		<title>Lesson (re)learned: The best camera for the shot is the one you have with you&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I always have a camera at hand. You never know&#8230;.
But this morning, at 7:24 a.m. I was just too rushed &#8211; had to drop off my son at school, and get a set of DVD&#8217;s delivered to a client before 8. As I headed out the door and reached for my 20D, I realized the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aheld.com/2010/05/lesson-relearned-the-best-camera-for-the-shot-is-the-one-you-have-with-you/</link>
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