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</description><title>Lens Journal</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @lensjournal)</generator><link>http://lensjournal.com/</link><item><title>meganmcisaac:

this thursday at the downtown powells...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7zp4lpzaF1qzo0d2o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://meganmcisaac.tumblr.com/post/1039344231/this-thursday-at-the-downtown-powells-bookstore-is" target="_blank"&gt;meganmcisaac&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;this thursday at the downtown &lt;a title="my favourite bookstore!" href="http://www.powells.com/" target="_blank"&gt;powells bookstore&lt;/a&gt; is the opening for “&lt;em&gt;dee dee, you’re stuck on a star&lt;/em&gt;,” a groupshow of women photographers found on the internet. i have a dozen or so photographs in the show, come check it out thursday night and all month long in the pearl room. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;if you find time to check out the show, please let me know what you think!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;p.s.&lt;/strong&gt; i didn’t make the photograph for the flier, im not sure who did, but as soon as i find out i will let you know.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://lensjournal.com/post/1039736577</link><guid>http://lensjournal.com/post/1039736577</guid><pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:22:11 +1000</pubDate></item><item><title>Make your own vacuum easel for contact printing and alternative...</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="255"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ryL241DKQ10&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ryL241DKQ10&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="255" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Make your own vacuum easel for contact printing and alternative photographic processes&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://lensjournal.com/post/1039729715</link><guid>http://lensjournal.com/post/1039729715</guid><pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:20:37 +1000</pubDate></item><item><title>You gotta love this one… The very first digital...</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="254"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JX8jm1pqPyo&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JX8jm1pqPyo&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="254" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;You gotta love this one… The very first digital camera…&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://lensjournal.com/post/895281146</link><guid>http://lensjournal.com/post/895281146</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 09:35:49 +1000</pubDate></item><item><title>"An object of sound function is also a thing of beauty."</title><description>“An object of sound function is also a thing of beauty.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Paul Holmes - in discussing why a ropes course is beautiful.&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://lensjournal.com/post/768603933</link><guid>http://lensjournal.com/post/768603933</guid><pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 18:53:08 +1000</pubDate></item><item><title>"Form, Function, Beauty = Gestalt"</title><description>“Form, Function, Beauty = Gestalt”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Max Bill&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://lensjournal.com/post/768598462</link><guid>http://lensjournal.com/post/768598462</guid><pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 18:50:36 +1000</pubDate></item><item><title>"Life is short, art is long!"</title><description>“Life is short, art is long!”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;??? Ken Rockwell? can anyone elaborate…&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://lensjournal.com/post/764734012</link><guid>http://lensjournal.com/post/764734012</guid><pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 17:38:11 +1000</pubDate><category>quote</category><category>quotes</category></item><item><title>A couple more pics from the Olympus EPL-1</title><description>&lt;img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l39y5xJh6Q1qzwplgo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l39y5xJh6Q1qzwplgo2_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l39y5xJh6Q1qzwplgo3_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l39y5xJh6Q1qzwplgo4_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l39y5xJh6Q1qzwplgo5_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l39y5xJh6Q1qzwplgo6_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l39y5xJh6Q1qzwplgo7_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;A couple more pics from the Olympus EPL-1&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://lensjournal.com/post/649315696</link><guid>http://lensjournal.com/post/649315696</guid><pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 17:58:45 +1000</pubDate></item><item><title>Some great original quotes on photography</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.lightinframeblog.com/?p=1874"&gt;Some great original quotes on photography&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://lensjournal.com/post/606188310</link><guid>http://lensjournal.com/post/606188310</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 16:31:05 +1000</pubDate></item><item><title>Last chance to vote and comment on my photographs in this fantastic competition</title><description>&lt;a href="http://testdrive.olympusimaging.com.au/"&gt;Last chance to vote and comment on my photographs in this fantastic competition&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://lensjournal.com/post/602967966</link><guid>http://lensjournal.com/post/602967966</guid><pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 16:15:38 +1000</pubDate></item><item><title>Some of the fantastic photographs to come out of my Olympus...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1outkLwJQ1qzwplgo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1outkLwJQ1qzwplgo2_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1outkLwJQ1qzwplgo3_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1outkLwJQ1qzwplgo4_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1outkLwJQ1qzwplgo5_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1outkLwJQ1qzwplgo6_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1outkLwJQ1qzwplgo7_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1outkLwJQ1qzwplgo8_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1outkLwJQ1qzwplgo9_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l1outkLwJQ1qzwplgo10_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some of the fantastic photographs to come out of my Olympus EPL-1 camera over the past few weeks. Fantastic fun… oh.. and the files are professional quality that I am very happy with. These are all in camera jpgs. wow.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://lensjournal.com/post/560756754</link><guid>http://lensjournal.com/post/560756754</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 22:03:19 +1000</pubDate></item><item><title>Have a look at my photographs in this competition.</title><description>&lt;a href="http://testdrive.olympusimaging.com.au/"&gt;Have a look at my photographs in this competition.&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;While you are there, why not rate them, and even make a comment. You may help me win the public choice award. Good luck in finding mine… just look for the beautiful ones. One in 35 should be mine. Thanks Olympus for lending me the fantastic EPL-1. Great fun, and quite a fantastic camera.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://lensjournal.com/post/560743376</link><guid>http://lensjournal.com/post/560743376</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:53:54 +1000</pubDate></item><item><title>Peter Gowland passes….
April 3, 1916 -  			March 17,...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kzjr9aHK8C1qzwplgo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Peter Gowland passes….&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;April 3, 1916 -  			March 17, 2010&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here I am with my Gowland Pocket View… beautiful camera.. many thanks… If I could only get my hands on one of those twin lens reflex 4x5’s.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.petergowland.com/" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.petergowland.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://lensjournal.com/post/459452225</link><guid>http://lensjournal.com/post/459452225</guid><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 07:51:10 +1100</pubDate></item><item><title>Offical Olympus test driver of a Pen EPL-1... can't wait to see what I can produce</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.photoartgallery.com/blog/post/The-Olympus-PEN-E-PL1-Test-Drive-Final-30-Announcment.aspx"&gt;Offical Olympus test driver of a Pen EPL-1... can't wait to see what I can produce&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://lensjournal.com/post/444813859</link><guid>http://lensjournal.com/post/444813859</guid><pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:42:28 +1100</pubDate></item><item><title>Compression (via terminally-incoherent)</title><description>&lt;img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz52nd5GUP1qz4wexo1_400.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Compression (via &lt;a href="http://random.terminally-incoherent.com/" target="_blank"&gt;terminally-incoherent&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://lensjournal.com/post/444097392</link><guid>http://lensjournal.com/post/444097392</guid><pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:11:49 +1100</pubDate></item><item><title>Dave LaBelle - photojournalism, social documentary &amp;...</title><description>&lt;object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="225" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7866068&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF"&gt;&lt;param name="quality" value="best" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="scale" value="showAll" /&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7866068&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7866068&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dave LaBelle - photojournalism, social documentary &amp; photography teacher&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://lensjournal.com/post/444062321</link><guid>http://lensjournal.com/post/444062321</guid><pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:52:17 +1100</pubDate><category>photojournalism video</category></item><item><title>Adventure sports make a great photographic subject.</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="336"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2E9ElqZOlaw&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2E9ElqZOlaw&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Adventure sports make a great photographic subject.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://lensjournal.com/post/444022722</link><guid>http://lensjournal.com/post/444022722</guid><pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:27:20 +1100</pubDate></item><item><title>Rock climbing in the Blue Mountains - photos and video by Simon...</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="336"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/F37rsS0KUXk&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/F37rsS0KUXk&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Rock climbing in the Blue Mountains - photos and video by Simon Carter.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://lensjournal.com/post/444016893</link><guid>http://lensjournal.com/post/444016893</guid><pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:23:24 +1100</pubDate><category>rockclimbing</category></item><item><title>Simon Carter talks about his rock climbing photography here in...</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="336"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZNgdN48RnRY&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZNgdN48RnRY&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Simon Carter talks about his rock climbing photography here in the stunning Blue Mountains World Heritage Area&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://lensjournal.com/post/444013419</link><guid>http://lensjournal.com/post/444013419</guid><pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:21:07 +1100</pubDate><category>rockclimbing learn photography video</category></item><item><title>Len's Photography Master Class</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Take your photography to the next level&lt;/b&gt; 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&lt;p&gt;A course for intermediate &amp; advanced photographers. 32 three hour sessions over a year. Hands on… understand the creative process, develop your skills in composition and critiquing images. Develop portfolios and projects. Be inspired by studying master photographers. Get discipline by being accountable for your work. Complete a number of exercises designed to take you to the next level. Learn in a supportive learning community. Make new friends.&lt;/p&gt;
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