Ray has picked up a new “hobby”

I have been interested in the internet and technology for a few years now and have enjoyed building websites. My latest venture scored me a collection of arcade sites. So if you like to play games and have a few minutes, please check them out. They are all FREE to play. Hope you enjoy!

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By James Monahan

The first date. A grand wedding. The child’s first walk. A newborn. The sunset. An impeding storm. Leaves falling from the branch of a tree. The first birthday. The beach party. The housewarming. A reunion. Christmas. The annual Thanksgiving.

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By James Hunt

Photoshop is a computer program that can greatly enhance the images in your life. You can manipulate photos or home videos with photoshop to look or sound a certain way. You can do many things with this program; you can change images, backgrounds and graphics- all in the comfort of your own home. With a program like photoshop, who needs professionals anymore? You can become the professional and save yourself time and money by doing the work on your pictures and videos yourself.

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By B.L. Hill

Lighting your subject is, obviously, very important for the successful capture of the “perfect” image. The type and intensity of the light can dramatically change the mood of the photograph. Sometimes the effect is not obvious until the picture is developed. Even with the digital camera, although you can see an image immediately, the size of the view screen makes it difficult to notice some of the differences.

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By James Hunt

You’ve probably seen countless numbers of them, as you’ve grown up; family photo albums, collections of photos from vacations and special events, photo albums that provide a pictorial documentation of a child’s walk through life. Whether you’ve spent hours pouring over them or groaned every time that they’re pulled out, chances are that someone in your family has an addiction to photo albums. Providing a visual reference to relatives and happy times, photo albums have long been a tradition in many homes.

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By Roy Barker

As we have discussed there are many avenues open to a professional photographer. Some actually graduate from the world of business into corporate photography. Corporate photography has many facets; it is used for publicity, in the form of advertisements; for public relations, for historical purposes, and for in-house brochures. Some corporate photographers can work for the same company for many years. They cover special events in the companies’ history, as well as being as in some cases an important aspect of industrial history. The history of the steamboat, the transition from the Agrarian to the Industrial revolution has all been captured on film.

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By Robert Provencher

One thing I discovered during my experience with digital photography after 20 years of shooting film, and I teach this point in all the many seminars that I’ve put on to hundreds of other full-time pros, is that digital photography is very well suited for the portrait photographer. So why are we the last to jump on the band wagon? Many commercial shooters have known about and mastered the use of digital in their business’s for far longer than the portrait photographer.

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By Roy Barker

As we have discussed there are many avenues open to a professional photographer. Some actually graduate from the world of business into corporate photography. Corporate photography has many facets; it is used for publicity, in the form of advertisements; for public relations, for historical purposes, and for in-house brochures. Some corporate photographers can work for the same company for many years. They cover special events in the companies’ history, as well as being as in some cases an important aspect of industrial history. The history of the steamboat, the transition from the Agrarian to the Industrial revolution has all been captured on film.

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In this photo provided by WTMJ-AM radio in Milwaukee, a group of soldiers from the Minnesota National Guard stationed in Iraq, hold up a comically misspelled sign mocking recent comments by Sen. John Kerry about people who didn’t study in school being ’stuck in Iraq.’ According to Air Force Public Affairs Officer Capt. J. Elaine Hunnicutt, ‘the soldiers’ intent in taking this photo was meant as a humorous response to the current debate in the media and the command recognizes it as such.’ (AP Photo/WTMJ-AM)

By KARIN STANTON, Associated Press

KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii - It started as a simple online advertising gimmick, but Brian Powers’ aerial photography project grew into something quite different. Powers, owner of Hawaiian Images Photography and Video, has photographed the entire coastline of the Big Island and posted the work on his Web site.

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