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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[milky way 1.jpg, originally uploaded by Valerie Close Evans, MA. This was my first attempt at astrophotography, on the only clear night of three we spent in the Lake District last year. From a single RAW file processed in Elements. The exposure was for five minutes with the camera on a fixed mount and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=valerieevans.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11801945&amp;post=306&amp;subd=valerieevans&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>International Women&#8217;s Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 10:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie Close Evans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s International Women&#8217;s Day today, and on Sunday, dancer and all-round high-energy person Kate E Deeming organised a Silent Disco to celebrate. I was fortunate enough to be able to document the event, and a selection of the several hundred shots I took will be projected at the Tramway Theatre later today as part of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=valerieevans.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11801945&amp;post=298&amp;subd=valerieevans&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poppy Orton Effect</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 11:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie Close Evans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[poppy orton effect high pass , originally uploaded by Valerie Close Evans, MA. The original image was shot on my birthday last year, and I kept it until I figured out what I wanted to do with it. It came to mind again the other day when I was looking for a subject to apply [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=valerieevans.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11801945&amp;post=294&amp;subd=valerieevans&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>cook&#8217;s kitchen</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[cook&#8217;s kitchen 2, originally uploaded by Valerie Close Evans, MA. When I don&#8217;t have anything better to do with my camera, I like to take it on a bit of an urban safari. This can be a difficult and dangerous prospect, especially in Glasgow, where they&#8217;re not shy about telling you the law with respect [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=valerieevans.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11801945&amp;post=293&amp;subd=valerieevans&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, but is it Art?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 09:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie Close Evans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is where I start with an apology for taking such a long break between posts, and an admission: I&#8217;m a geek. I&#8217;m not ashamed to be a geek, but it&#8217;s relevent because it colours my perception of most things, and especially photography.  Maybe this is going to mark me as shallow and incapable of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=valerieevans.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11801945&amp;post=289&amp;subd=valerieevans&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m a rubbish host</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I feel I should make a quick apology to my visitors for the stunning lack of stuff going on my blog just now. There are two reasons for this: my husband recently had a motorbike accident and nearly lost a leg and two, or B, now he&#8217;s recovering, we&#8217;re in the process of gutting and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=valerieevans.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11801945&amp;post=265&amp;subd=valerieevans&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Alert! Ebay/ Paypal Scam!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 10:51:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie Close Evans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, this is a bit of an aside from the usual, however, if anyone reading this has camera equipment they are planning to get rid of, here is a timely warning on the dangers of doing so via Ebay. http://dimninja.wordpress.com/2010/10/07/ebay-and-paypal-why-jim-and-us-are-no-longer-friends/ This camera owner was scammed by a &#8216;buyer&#8216; who bought the camera within one minute [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=valerieevans.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11801945&amp;post=247&amp;subd=valerieevans&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On being asked to work for free&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://valerieevans.wordpress.com/2010/09/21/on-being-asked-to-work-for-free/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie Close Evans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These wonderful video clips showed up on an interesting discussion on a Linked-In forum about photographers being asked to work for free by clients.  I recommend any photographer, professional or amateur/ semi-pro, who finds themselves faced with a client who wants to negotiate a contract that doesn&#8217;t include fair payment direct them to either of these two clips, both [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=valerieevans.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11801945&amp;post=236&amp;subd=valerieevans&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Viral Marketing</title>
		<link>http://valerieevans.wordpress.com/2010/08/26/viral-marketing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie Close Evans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nice article on viral marketing by the folks at LinkTo Pro - a simple explanation of a concept a lot of people find daunting.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=valerieevans.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11801945&amp;post=220&amp;subd=valerieevans&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can you learn to be creative?</title>
		<link>http://valerieevans.wordpress.com/2010/08/24/can-you-learn-to-be-creative/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie Close Evans</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting article on Creative Choices today. They interviewed five creatives and asked them if they thought that university was important in the development of a creative career. The answers were pretty wide ranging...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=valerieevans.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11801945&amp;post=217&amp;subd=valerieevans&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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