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		<title>Signs of Spring&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s assignment was “Signs of Spring”.  It became the subject of this assignment after I was inspired while  shooting last week’s assignment (Subject Placement) and found our local wild rabbit sitting beside the house. I got some shots of him last week, but they weren’t any good.  And it wasn’t as if I was expecting to get another [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rstosky.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4944404&amp;post=340&amp;subd=rstosky&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Subject Placement &amp; shooting with a purpose&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Yes, I know I’ve posted my blog up here pretty late this week, but sometimes you just have to post late rather than miss posting all together,…) This last week’s assignment was “subject placement”.  Shoot an image where the subject does not appear at the centre of the frame and the subject does not appear [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rstosky.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4944404&amp;post=330&amp;subd=rstosky&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Inside a Crystal Lattice</title>
		<link>http://rstosky.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/inside-a-crystal-lattice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The previous week’s assignment was “Doors” and so it only fitting that this week’s assignment be “Windows”.   A couple of years ago I would often go out on these “Walk-abouts” for a couple of hours at a time, with camera in hand, shooting whatever happened to be the “subject of that day”… so this week [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rstosky.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4944404&amp;post=302&amp;subd=rstosky&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Regal Perk</title>
		<link>http://rstosky.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/regal-perk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This last week’s assignment was: &#8220;household appliance&#8221;, Take a photo of an appliance in your house and use the elements / principles of design to convey how it&#8217;s role is viewed/personified in your household.” Only one appliance so definitively holds an imperial status in our house.  Every morning it is the first appliance we activate, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rstosky.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4944404&amp;post=294&amp;subd=rstosky&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pocket Full of Change (Contrast Assignment)</title>
		<link>http://rstosky.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/pocket-full-of-change-contrast-assignment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This last week&#8217;s assignment was to &#8220;Produce an image which demonstrates the concept of &#8216;Contrast&#8217;. Any sort of contrast would be suitable: size, colour, shape etc. An excellent topic for an assignment, but sometimes I find that the creative juices just don&#8217;t freely flow when these assignments are easy&#8230; Pocket Full of Change No excuses, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rstosky.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4944404&amp;post=281&amp;subd=rstosky&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Portrait of a Bird</title>
		<link>http://rstosky.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/portrait-of-a-bird/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This last week’s assignment was to take a Portrait of a Bird.  No other conditions, no other requirements.  The assignment was otherwise open to interpretation. Doing this assignment I gained a new appreciation for this somewhat challenging subject.  Not only can you not in any way coax the subject to move or reposition in any [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rstosky.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4944404&amp;post=273&amp;subd=rstosky&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kootenay Stalagmites (this week&#8217;s assignment&#8230; &#8220;Tree&#8221;)</title>
		<link>http://rstosky.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/kootenay-stalagmites-this-weeks-assignment-tree/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This last week&#8217;s assignment was &#8220;Trees&#8221;.  You could interpret it any which way you chose. You could revisit the (previous) tree portrait assignment. You could create tree silhouettes.  Do anything that pleased you. And so my Adventure began&#8230; This last week we finally had the chance to travel over the Great Divide (separating Alberta and BC, Canada) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rstosky.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4944404&amp;post=245&amp;subd=rstosky&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Solid Water&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://rstosky.wordpress.com/2009/12/20/solid-water/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This last week’s assignment was:

Shoot any kind of “Frozen Water” as the SUBJECT of the photo… Snow, Ice, Frost, doesn’t matter, just so long as Solid H2O is “the subject” in your photo. Everything else in the photo’s design is game.

There is something about shooting your assignment early which then takes all of the stress off of you, leaving you open to seeing all sorts of shots as the week goes on.

Click on ahead to read more about this last week's photo adventure...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rstosky.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4944404&amp;post=221&amp;subd=rstosky&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;RED&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://rstosky.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/red/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:24:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This last week’s assignment: “Red”… It draws the focus more than any other colour. The assignment was to compose an image featuring the colour red. No other constraints. Red can be Christmas.  Red can be warmth.  Just shoot red. Red or Not Red This week’s assignment has reinforced to me the challenges in photographically reproducing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rstosky.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4944404&amp;post=203&amp;subd=rstosky&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“Oh” Christmas Tree</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One “practical” thing I really like to do with some of the photos I take, is to use them as cover images in greeting cards,… Birthdays, Anniversaries, Christenings, and of course Seasonal Holidays. Being it’s the first week of December; I thought what a great and timely exercise. So the assignment for this past week [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rstosky.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4944404&amp;post=180&amp;subd=rstosky&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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