"My Publisher" While most of us don't commit hundreds of photographs to print anymore, many of us have gazillions of bytes worth of photos sitting in our hard drives. Wouldn't it be nice if someone else could see them? How about the photos of your most recent vacation? Or your daughters' wedding
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11/05/2009
WhooHoo! 1st Place Macro! - Arlington Camera Photo Contest A couple months or so ago, a friend told me about a photo contest sponsored by Arlington Camera in Texas. She suggested I enter a photo and see what happens....So I did. This was my entry: I took this photograph using a Nikon 50mm pri
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11/04/2009
Daylight Savings Time - Someone Forgot To Tell The Dogs!
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11/03/2009
Sharpening Photos Makes a Difference! Digital cameras, whether it is a point and shoot, or a DSLR produce inherently 'soft' photos. Sharpening your photos can make a big difference. When we use a resizing program to make our photos smaller for our blogs, the problem of 'softness' increases. Here
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11/02/2009
Want SEO for your photos? Here's a tip - Use the tools Active Rain gave you! PhotoBlogging 101 Get the Most out of Your PhotoBlogging Efforts AR has given us the ability to use "alt attributes", which allow you to add a description of the photograph, (and will allow a sight impaired person sear
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11/01/2009
How To Create an Action For Your Watermark - or anything else you do on a repetitive basis in Photoshop. Creating an 'Action' in Photoshop is a method that allows you to quickly and easily reproduce something you do on a regular basis, without havi
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10/31/2009
Bone Town Sure is quiet here. Sign says the town was founded in the 1880's. Where is everybody? Old cabins dotted here and there. Some bigger buildings too. What does that one say? Town Hall. Been empty a very long time. Wish I'd brought a coat. Wind's
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10/30/2009
No! I don't mean Virgo, you September babies! Thought it was a typo, didn't you? LOL No, this post is about Virga which is a weather phenomenon we often see, sometimes as a spectacular display. I was on the Eastern plains of Colorado recently, and was completely taken by the clouds that formed on
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10/29/2009
Hello My Friends! Many of us who participate in Wordless Wednesday, Speechless Sunday, and Friday Fotos have been posting our photos WITH commentary to these groups for lack of a better place to post them. Now, we have a new group - the "Active Rain Photo Blogger Group" in which to post our creat
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10/28/2009
An Option for Discouraging Photo Thieves Zillions of photographs are posted to the web every day, and many of those are stolen and used by others on their blogs or websites. We've all read that even if you buy a photograph, you can't be absolutely sure
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10/28/2009
