December 23, 2011
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Personal Style
December 11, 2011
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Shopping
Current Obsession: Camera Purses
Camera bags exist to serve a very specific function: to safely and securely hold camera equipment. Most have padded compartments designed to fit a DSLR camera body, a lens or two, a flash, and maybe spot for cash and keys. Unfortunately, they’re usually UGLY. I’m talking black-and-gray-nylon-and-elasticized-mesh ugly. When I’m carrying my camera around getting street style shots or working on a photography project, I prefer to carry a bag that will fit my equipment...
September 1, 2011
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Design, Tips and Advice
How To: Create Image Maps for Your Blog
You know those online collages that let you click on different pictures to go to different sites, like in a blog post, email newsletter, or on a Facebook landing page? There’s a good chance it was an image map. Image maps allow you to hyperlink areas of a single image to various URLs (websites) without “slicing” the image into separate files. They come in handy when you want an easy way to create a composite...
July 7, 2011
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Shopping
Don’t Be Fooled By the Rocks That I Got
My obsession with rocks and crystals likely started during the dinosaurs-are-awesome phase everyone seems to go through around 4th grade. I dreamed of expanding my rock collection–proudly displayed amongst my collection of My Little Ponies and Sweet Valley Twins books–to include crystals and geodes and jagged stalactites (or was it stalagmites?). To this day, anything that looks like a treasure coveted by small creatures with pointy ears from Middle Earth, I WANT–remember how excited I...
June 20, 2011
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Inspiration, Personal Style