Well, after much thought I have decided to retire this blog for now and seek some new direction.  I will shift focus to the root site www.eclecticstudiocafe.com and organize my art/photos and such for display and will have somewhat of a live update...

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I grabbed my Panasonic FZ5 to capture some snow flakes.  I already had it setup with a Russian achromatic lens topped with my Raynox 150 and 150. They are not as sharp as I would like but am happy with them.[tags] snowflakes, Panasonic FZ5 [/tags]
Topics: Macro Photography, Panasonic FZ5, snowflakes

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Well, we are now heading into a new year.  I am not much of a writer (an area I could surely improve upon) and so won’t go into things too deeply but it has been a great year of challenges, growth and change.  One thing to put simply-I pray (God..
Topics: Images

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I loaded up one of my favorite computer programs this past week.  I find it helps to explore images in other ways to get inspiration.  Here are a couple of my recent images. You will find the Apophysis site in my links...

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We had a decent storm recently and the winds were whipping up snow drifts.  This one was a bit higher than what I am used to seeing in our back porch.  I don’t think the photo does it justice.In other happenings, I updated my WP and I am sure...

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