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PHOTO TIPS

Practical tips and ideas:

Shoot a lot of selfies

Honor thy selfie. There is no better subject than yourself. You cannot deny yourself.

Experiment. Cover your face, shoot with your camera to the side, and shoot yourself in different reflections.

Late night shadows

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Shadows during the day is interesting — but even more interesting at night.

Above photo was shot of Cindy by the window, with the outside street lights entering our apartment.

Tip: Turn off all the lights in your house to see more shadows, to make more shadow photos.

Mountain ranges in textures

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What I love about photographing textures:

Many textures look like ‘fractal‘ designs of natural things like mountain ranges.

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Shoot trees

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Trees are endlessly fascinating. Look up and shoot trees you find interesting, in terms of design, pattern, or growth (fractal) patterns:

Snow

One of the things I love about living on the East coast:

It snows!

Snow makes AWESOME photographs, especially in black and white: