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		<title>Shadow Man</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 20:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; I was teaching recently at the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, and gave my students an assignment of seeing and photographing shadows, while they were exploring the plaza downtown.  Since they were to wander on their own, to find unique photographs,  I wandered, too &#8211; to catch up with them and check in on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Could you hurry that call up, please?</title>
		<link>http://www.brendatharp.com/2013/03/20/could-you-hurry-that-call-up-please/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 23:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; While looking for something else, I came across this funny image today (isn&#8217;t that always the way it works &#8211; you can&#8217;t find what you want but you find other things&#8230;?) I made it back in 2006 &#8211; yes, 7 years ago! But the humor hasn&#8217;t faded, the camera was a solid Canon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What are our photo tours like?</title>
		<link>http://www.brendatharp.com/2013/03/04/what-are-our-photo-tours-like/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I  received an email recently asking about our Italy photo tour. The person wondered what they were like,and as I responded to the email, I got to thinking about what we do on our tours, and thought I&#8217;d share a general overview here. &#160; Our General Approach: Photography tours are often advertised as &#8220;getting to you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photography by the light of midday</title>
		<link>http://www.brendatharp.com/2013/02/25/photography-by-the-light-of-midday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Trinidad, Cuba Morning or late afternoon light can be a great thing to photograph in villages and cities, when the light streams down the cobblestoned streets, skimming the surface of stones and walls, bringing out the texture, and creating long shadows. As photographers, we &#8216;live&#8217; for that kind of light. But I learned a long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unfinished art…</title>
		<link>http://www.brendatharp.com/2013/02/22/unfinished-art/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 19:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; I&#8217;ve been going through my past pictures of Tuscany, getting psyched for our upcoming photo tour there. It&#8217;s amazing how easily we forget images that we made when often there&#8217;s so many from just one trip! But I came across this one from Volterra, the city of alabaster. We had stopped in one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Portraits of Cuba, cont’d</title>
		<link>http://www.brendatharp.com/2013/02/16/portraits-of-cuba-contd-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 19:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is truly amazing to meet the people of Cuba. This is a mother and son! Hard to believe, at first. They were shy, and lived in a valley outside of Trinidad. They appeared from inside their home, when they heard the commotion outside &#8211; a bunch of photographers walking through their village! This is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making the most of a situation</title>
		<link>http://www.brendatharp.com/2013/02/04/making-the-most-of-a-situation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.brendatharp.com/?p=7003</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Often when you travel, you find yourself arriving at places at either the wrong time of day or the weather simply wasn&#8217;t what you hoped it might be. This Che Guevera monument was just that; right place, wrong weather conditions, but it was a good place for everyone to stretch their legs and use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking a different angle</title>
		<link>http://www.brendatharp.com/2013/01/27/taking-a-different-angle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 17:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; A tour client on our recent Cuba tour was often found standing off from those that waited their turn to photograph the &#8216;straight-on&#8217; portrait of a guy or woman we found. The straight-on images were terrific, but while waiting  there were other angles to be explored. This is just one example of how you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back from Cuba</title>
		<link>http://www.brendatharp.com/2013/01/26/back-from-cuba/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 20:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; Wow, wow, WOW! Cuba was terrific, and while it lacks easy internet access or cell phone service to the USA, and many other infrastructure items that we are so used to, such as water in the shower, or hot water&#8230;it&#8217;s a wonderul place full of character and lots and lots of things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Urban Beauty</title>
		<link>http://www.brendatharp.com/2013/01/07/urban-beauty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brenda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; I love it when there&#8217;s just a little bit of frost around my neighborhood. In northern California we keep our leaves longer, which means that even three days ago, there were dry brown leaves on the ground, waiting for the wind to carry them away. But the cold frosty week we had got [...]]]></description>
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