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A wise man once said, "The more you have learned, the more you'll realize you still have left to learn." Or hasn't he? I don't know, but I think it's something a typical wise man would say. At least it's what I say after approx. two years of doing serious photography. It seems logical, and to make up another metaphorical, fictional wise man's quote: "To a bird, the ocean seems shallow and plain. Only a fish that dives towards the seabed may know how deep and vast it really is." Well, let's pretend it's a wise man, but with a limited English vocabulary. Anyway, when I started with this, I thought photography was about pointing a camera som

Friday, February 19th: Done my first *real* shooting at late last. Background: Fatizzle and G-Taka, two local rappers I'd written an article about in November, finally got their shit together and ready for production of their first full album. However, lacking any graphical skills, they had no concept whatsoever for the album's cover, art, and layout. That's where I came in. We were pretty sure from the beginning that we'd like to take some clean, serious studio portraits for the content as well as for future homepage issues, and a black, elegant, sleek theme for the visual design. A few more "special" ideas and an outdoor shooting came to m

Bridges are miracles of architecture, human creativity. After all, there's a whole category dedicated to photographs of them here on dA. Every one of them is unique, fitted to the surrounding landscape, the available resources, and its supposed utilisation. They require most complex statical calculations, must be stable at strong winds, high temperatures and heavy load. So when a bridge has stood firm for years, for summers and winters, with much and with little traffic, has thoroughly proved the quality of its construction, why just tear it down all of a sudden? Bridges are usually only destroyed at war, to hinder the hostile faction's adva