Hi, welcome to my photography blog, I’m glad you stopped by. I write this blog to chronicle the various photography projects I am working on.
I was honored to have this photo featured on Freshly Pressed:
And this photo included in an article on Fox Sports:
Currently based in England, I’ve been active in the St. Louis Missouri Camera Club. Here are a few images that have placed in competitions sponsored by them:
I would appreciate constructive comments on my photos I have written about on my blog. Some of my posts include information about how I took the image and edited it. I also post many of my nature photos.
I’m also on Flickr and Twitter, so feel free to visit me there. My images are available for sale on Picfair.
I appreciate your visit.
Cheers!
hello,
I am French and amateur photographer and would like to share my blog which iswww.photobach.wordpress.com, I post pictures of street in black and white,landscapes and wildlife pictures.
I hope you enjoy your visit and do not hesitate to leave comments and put the pictures like if you like.
If the photos you like, you can you subscribe to my blog to be notified of newpost.
See you soon I hope, cordially.
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Thanks for dropping by to visit Hanuman and his family. I must say you lucked into the most magnificent position to take your whale tail … magnificent! My close encounter, he was spinning on his tail, nose to the sky:) I don’t know if you saw it – I posted it for the Oceans challenge a few weeks ago.
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http://lazylauramaisey.wordpress.com/2012/08/27/you-really-must-stop-with-all-the-awards-not-really-i-love-them/ I’ve nominated you for the Very Inspiring Blogger Award!
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Thanks 🙂
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Congratulations. I just nominated you for the “Liebster Blog Award” ☺ check out: http://aljaja.wordpress.com/2012/10/12/aljaja-nominated-for-liebster-blog-award/
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Which I appreciate but must decline. Thanks
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Really impresive work!
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Thanks, and thanks for stopping by!
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I have nominated you for the Liebster Blog Award. Please accept it and see the rules at http://miljoanne.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/liebster-blog-award/ … Thank you!
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I am grateful for the nomination, but must decline. You have a lovely blog!
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Thanks for liking. Will follow you now!
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Thank you for your visit!, hope you like following 🙂
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I like your video but I still don’t know who or where you are. You kindly stopped by my About page in response to the About page 201: Meat Grinder post so I’m returning the favour. Your promise of explanations of the editing process appeals to me so I’ll look out for those.
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Thanks for your constructive comments I appreciate the feedback. I really like the look of your blog, so I am going to work on a few things on my layout based on what I like about yours. I have most often stopped by and seen your work on the wordpress weekly photo challenge and the travel theme. You do really nice work.
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Thank you for the compliments! I’ve recently changed the theme and layout of my blog so I’m really pleased that you think it works well. If you have any suggestions for things that still need tweaking, please let me know. I look forward to seeing your new look!
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nominated you for sunshine award and very inspiring blogger award. xxx
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Hi, I just wanted to let you know I have nominated you for the Leibster Blog Award. Your photography is really stunning and the blog is visually very exciting. I hope more people will discover and enjoy the blog through this nomination.You can see the nomination and more information about the award on my blog at http://mayandseptember.wordpress.com/2013/01/08/my-first-awards/. I hope it will encourage others to enjoy your blog. Please don’t feel obligated to do the full acceptance unless its something you would enjoy.
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Thank you very much 🙂 I enjoy your blog as well.
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Hello there, Thank you for clicking the like on my post and I am following you because your blog is truly awesome ! see you around and best wishes
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Thank you for your kind words. I am including a link to a blog post of yours that I just saw and really enjoyed:http://wp.me/p2NZmP-fA
Cheers!
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Thank you. I appreciate it. Cheers
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Hi. I just found your blog (thanks for liking a photo that I put up on my blog) and wanted to let you know that I think it’s great. I especially like that you take the time to discuss the process and technique of a photo. As someone who is interested in photography and enjoys learning new things this is very helpful. Thanks for the great work!
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Thank you so much for taking the time leave this nice comment, I do appreciate it.
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Awesome stuff! Thanks for the like on my blog. I got my DSLR only late last year and I have lots to learn. I will be coming back for some more to learn from you. I’m not sure if I’m in any position to comment on your stuff, being a very very amateur photographer 😉
Cheers!
Mary
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Thank you so much for your visit and your comment. I appreciate all comments, so if you have something to share please feel free to comment 🙂
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Saw a comment you made about visiting NZ in Wheres My Backpack and thought I would drop by, I got my first proper DSLR just over 4 years ago and like you I started blogging about learning photography when I got it, to try and save my sanity and maybe learn something along the way. Well done with your efforts, I can clearly see what you are showing and also that you are having fun 🙂
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Thanks for stopping by and commenting, I appreciate it. I checked out your blog and your very impressive flickr stream.
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Just to let you know, I’ve nominated you for an inspirational blog award, you can read my nomination post here: http://suzysu.wordpress.com/2013/03/13/very-inspiring-blogger-award/
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Thank you very much for the nomination which I must gratefully decline.
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ciao! luvFAB blog.
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Thanks so much 🙂
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Thanks for visiting my blog. And… yours is gorgeous. Following. … and just love the daffodils!
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Oh, thank you so much 🙂
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Thank you for visiting my blog and liking my photo challenge post. I hope you can visit again some time. I look forward to seeing more of your interpretations.
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Thank you so much, and thanks for visiting 🙂
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Hi, thanks a lot for dropping by mine 🙂
I am from Semarang, Indonesia and I hope I can get more knowledge and horizon here.
Regards…
Nono
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Thanks for stopping by.
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You’re welcome
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Great video and photo’s and such a lovely blog. Thanks for sharing. 🙂
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Thank you for having a look through my blog, I appreciate that you took the time to do that 🙂
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You are very welcome and I just had no choice. Your posts and photo’s are just beautiful. I truly enjoyed. Thanks! 🙂
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Wow, thank you so much for your kind words.
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Afternoon! Just wanted to thank you for liking my Bus Station : Background photo for this week’s challenge. I will have a look through your work now. Have a lovely weekend! 🙂
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Thank you for your visit, I appreciate it 🙂
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Thanks so much for visiting my blog and liking my post! I appreciate it very much. I’ve enjoyed my visit here – best of luck to you! 😀
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Thank you for visiting and commenting, I appreciate both 🙂
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The Daily Post Weekly photo challenged has inspired me to try my hand at photography. I only have a regular Sony camera and mostly take my shots with my iPhone, what kind of camera do you use? What inspired you to pursue photography? Me I’m just a burst of creative energy and so far I’m having so much fun self-teaching myself. By-the-way great blog!
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Thanks for the compliment and your visit. I have a Canon 50D, Canon Powershot Elph, and an iPhone. I use all of them, it just depends on the situation. I’ve always liked doing something “creative”, and photography just happens to be the latest evolution of that. One of the reasons I love digital though is that I can experiment at a pretty low cost. If you haven’t found it yet, I like this site as a basic source of info and ideas: http://digital-photography-school.com I like the photo challenges here at WordPress as well. The one WordPress runs is the largest, but several other photographers run smaller ones that are worth checking out as well. All the best to you!
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Thanks for the tips! I’m planning on getting a better camera, I read Digital Cameras | Olympus are good, looking into it will let you know. Keep up the good work with your blog! (--〆)
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🙂 Good luck. You might even want to consider renting the model you are considering buying, just for a weekend to give it a try before you buy.
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Hi there… glad to connect and interact with you.
Thanks for stopping by my blog. Best wishes to you… 🙂
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Hi 🙂 I appreciate your visit to my blog. I do enjoy visiting yours as well.
Cheers!
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Thanks for stopping to visit my blog. I like to learn from other people’s photos. I suspect you will be a great teacher from the very few I’ve seen so far.
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Thank you for your visit!
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Hi there! I would like to nominate you for the Capture the Color photo contest. The deadline is 9th October… I just got nominated myself but thought it would be fun (short timeline notwithstanding)! More info at this link. http://www.travelsupermarket.com/c/holidays/capture-the-colour/#knowmore
Hope you can participate 🙂
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Thanks for the nomination, I’m probably not going to make it for this year. Good luck to you!
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Hi, thanks for stopping by my blog! Photography blogs never fails to amaze me, looking forward to exploring your takes on photography.
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Thank you for your kind comment, I enjoyed my visit to your blog 🙂
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I am Glad that you came by my blog and liked my Post providing me the opportunity to get to your Blog and that mean a lot as I can learn from you.. 🙂
Thank You.. 😀
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Thank you for your visit. I enjoyed visiting your blog 🙂
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Hi there, I nominated you for this : http://publictransituser.wordpress.com/2013/11/24/blog-of-the-year-award-2013/
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Thank you very much.
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You are most welcome.
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Hi there and thanks for stopping by my blog. It’s nice that you give little photography lessons on your blog. I sure would like to see larger images though. My eyes are not what they used to be! 🙂
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Thanks for your visit and comment. I have to say that I agree with you about the larger images. This theme seems to restrict the size more than I would like. I have yet to find a (free) theme that allows me to to have large images and also a sidebar for other information. If you have run across a theme that you think works really well for that I’d love to have the name of it.
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Hi Photography Journal Blog, I use Able for one of my blogs: http://www.catbirdinamerica.wordpress.com and the images are very large. Also Nishita is another good one for large photos: http://www.catbirdphotography.wordpress.com
I’m always experimenting with different themes for different effects. You can check out any of my 16 (!) blogs by hovering over the menu at the top of my page and clicking on the blog to see how different themes work. Good luck!
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Thank you very much for this. I will stop by and take a look, hopefully sometime soon, I’m taking a final exam this week so I had been hoping to check out your blogs over the weekend but I didn’t get to it. 16 blogs! how do you find the time for it? I appreciate your thoughtful comments 🙂
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There are a lot of great themes to feature your photos beautifully; I’m sure you can find one. I hope you won’t be afraid to experiment. Have fun!
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Thank you very much for your help. I was going to respond to you and let you know I left links to your blog here:http://wp.me/p2owKx-wc but I know you already have seen and responded to it. I thank you very much for your time and thoughtful response to my blog, it means a lot to me.
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You’re welcome. It’s not often I have anything to offer, but if I can, I will! 🙂 I’m really looking forward to seeing what you come up with. It’s really a lot of fun to experiment. 🙂
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Yes, we will see what I end up doing, I’ll be sure to let you know though 🙂 because I’ll be interested to see what you think.
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Thanks! 🙂
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Hi, I realli have enjoyed wandering through your site. I am explore photography more these days from the camera phone view. I like to take pictures of my food and you have given me some good pointers on compasition. Thank you for stopping by and sharing your world. I hope you’ll drop by again.
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Hi there, and thanks for your visit and kind comment.
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Hi – glad I found your blog – and the gravatar photo you use for this blog (little girl with hat) is one of the cutest little girls I have ever seen – and I still smile each time I see that adorable face with scrunched nose!! 🙂
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Thanks and I’m glad you found my blog as well, as I have enjoyed my visits to yours. That photo is me and honestly just about every picture of me that exists of me under 5 I am making a face of some kind. This one just because I was looking into the sun though 🙂
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Nice reading about you
Thanks for visiting my blog. Be in touch. Browse through the category sections, I feel you may find something of your interest.
Happy New Year !!!!!!! and best wishes for you in 2014 🙂
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Thank you very much for your visit. All the best to you as well 🙂
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Thank you so much dear 🙂
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Hi there, Your blog has a very smart appearance. I don’t know very much at all about photography. Although I do try to think about about how to frame a shot, but not necessarily achieving the outcome I intended. The information you share about how you’ve achieved the photo is very helpful to a novice like me.
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Thank you for taking the time to look around and comment, I do appreciate it. I enjoy writing out my process, just because it helps me think about what it is I am doing, and what I might want to try differently in the future. I’m glad you find it helpful.
Cheers!
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Great blog, nice to be here, regards from Poland 🙂 EM
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Thank you for your visit and kind words 🙂
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Thanks so much for visiting my blog! I appreciate it very much. 🙂
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Certainly 🙂 and I appreciate your visit and kind comment 🙂
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Thanks 🙂
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Your blog is wonderful. Keep up the good work. Hope to keep in touch with you!
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Thank you very much for your visit and kind words.
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Cool, thanks!
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Your photographs are awesome. 🙂
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Thanks so much 🙂
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It looks great though to be honest I don’t remember what it was like before.
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It had a lot fewer photos, which when I thought about it, seemed kind of odd for a photo blog…
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I like your video. Enjoyed the story of the robins nest and the good outcome.
Congratulations on being Freshly Pressed. I enjoy your photography.
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Thanks very much, I appreciate your visit, thanks for taking the time to look around.
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You have a great photo journal site and I will follow your journey. 🙂
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Thank you for taking a look through the site, I appreciate your visit and your comments.
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I love your blog. I wanted to recommend it to more people via the Blogger Recognition Award. I know not everyone participates in the awards system, and if you don’t, I completely understand. But you can find the details at http://wp.me/p6s2CE-8i if you’re interested. Either way, please take it as a sign of my regard for your site!
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Thanks very much for the nomination which I must gratefully decline. Thank you, for coming by and visiting and leaving such a nice comment.
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I understand, everyone does not have the time or have another reason. Whatever reason, I still admire you site.
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Thanks! I do appreciate it.
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Been visiting about your website. Such a beautiful space you have created. You really have an eye for capturing images! Looking forward to following.
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Thanks for visiting and leaving some nice comments here, I appreciate it.
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I can see why your photo was freshly pressed, it’s absolutely beautiful and it tugs on the emotions. Are they robins? American robins are a bit different from ours in the UK.
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Yes, those are American Robins. We have a lot of them living in our hedgerow. We didn’t get a nest in this particular spot this year though which was a bit sad for me.
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Hello from another St. Louisan (well, technically St. Charles). Great blog and I’d love to know more about the St. Louis Camera Club.
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Hi, thanks for your visit, I just took a minute to scroll through your blog, I’ll take a deeper look in a few minutes, but it looks really nice. Here is a link to the St. Louis Camera Club:http://www.stlcameraclub.com They have a lot going on, it’s a pretty big club with regular meetings on Wednesday Sept-May approximately. You are more than welcome to attend a few meetings before deciding if you would like to join.
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Your photos are lovely! 🙂
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Thanks!
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Congratulations on the Freshly Pressed distinction! I also had one of my posts selected for Freshly Pressed – when I first started blogging, actually – and it was really fun to receive the recognition. I appreciate that you took the time to share your thoughts on a couple of my posts recently. I like the refresh on your blog! Kudos!
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Thank you for the time you have taken to look through and comment on my blog. I do appreciate the visit, I also enjoyed my visit to your blog. I had been blogging for awhile before I got “Freshly Pressed”, but it was exciting for me.
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And thank you on my end as well. I really enjoy your images, and your expression of what it took to create those images. In my case, I got this Freshly Pressed honor relatively soon after starting to blog, but I think it was because the photo in the challenge was so odd that people had a hard time making something of it. I used a humor-satirical approach, and I think it happened to strike the editors well. No second occurrence since, and that’s okay! 🙂
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I’ve also not repeated the honor, and that’s ok, really what keeps me blogging is that I still find what I am doing interesting 🙂
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You’ve got a wonderful pair of eyes, I must say! glanced through the pix here; enjoyed a lot! thanks for sharing! Felt really glad for you stopped by my blog and liked a post! Thank you so much! 🙂
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Thank you very much for your kind comment and I appreciate you taking a moment to visit 🙂
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The pleasure is all mine!
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Wow, what an honour to be able to browse through photos taken with such talent, warmth and precision! 😀
Thank you so much for stopping by my blog and liking one of my photos……truly made my day! 😀
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Thank you for your kind comment and for taking the time to visit my blog. I enjoyed the point of view of your photo from this week’s challenge.
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I’m enjoying your England photos. We lived south of London for two years before moving on to Qatar for a few years, then back to Canada. I didn’t have a particularly good film camera when we were overseas – digital cameras hadn’t happened yet. Your photos are helping me to remember all the pictures I didn’t get!
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I guess that would be a good excuse to come back for a visit, to get the photos 🙂 There is no question that digital has made the ability to document travels much easier! Thank you for your visit and kind comment.
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beautiful photos and a special thumb up for the lioness in your blog main photo
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Thank you for visiting my blog and for your kind comment.
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You are welcome 🙂
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Thank you for leaving a comment on my weekly photo challenge. 🙂 I checked out your and I was very amazed and impressed for your beautiful site! Keep up the good work!
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Thank you for taking the time to visit and for your lovely comment 🙂
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Hi Maranto,
My name is Justin and I have been looking through your blog. I love your photos! But I must say I love the hot air balloon photo with the contrasting stormy clouds as my favorite. Did you make the photo an HDR?
I just started a website for beginner photographers, and have written a couple of blog posts to get me started. I would love some feedback if you have a chance to take a look. Here’s a link if you have a chance to check it out: jusmcafee.com/on-location/
I thought my articles might resonate with your readers. This weekend, I’m doing a deep dive into posing for portraits for my subscribers. If you are interested, I could write a version especially for your readers as a guest post. Let me know if you would be interested.
Thanks,
Justin
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Hi Maranto, I’m glad to come over to learn more about you. Your photos are stunning and deserve recognition. Congratulations. 🙂
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That photo of the birds is magic.
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Thank you very much.
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