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A Time to Challenge Myself
Just a few short months ago, I like so many others thought of the Covid 19 crisis as a temporary inconvenience.
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I treated the shutdown as a time to get busy learning my camera, pushing it and myself to produce images that were not simply screenshots of the scene in front of me
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but more about controlling how and where light and color falls upon my cameras sensor. I liken it to a painters brush.
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7 months have now passed and my journey continues...