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	<description>The blog and image portfolio of Denmark-based photographer Ian Mylam.</description>
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		<title>Snowfall in New York City</title>
		<link>http://blog.ianmylam.com/2015/03/snowfall-in-new-york-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2015 06:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a world in which cameras or at least camera-equipped phones are ubiquitous, in which travel has become cheaper and easier, in which no corner of the world seems undiscovered, in which everything seems to have been photographed and in which we are bombarded with dozens or even hundreds of images daily, it is very hard to find a new perspective on a familiar place – particularly a place as familiar and photographed as New York City. Snow visually transforms both the air it passes through and what it falls upon, and its presence in the air and the reflectance it brings to the ground also modifies the light illuminating a scene. It thus has the power to transform the familiar into something unfamiliar, interesting and magical. Which is why I was hoping for snowfall in New York. 

One hour before I was due to leave the city to fly to London, the snow started to fall...]]></description>
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		<title>A One-Light Self-Portrait (Bringing the Sun back)</title>
		<link>http://blog.ianmylam.com/2014/11/a-one-light-self-portrait-bringing-the-sun-back-in-male/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2014 16:39:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am in Malé, the capital of the Maldives, and it's raining outside. Raining very hard. I decide to pass the time by shooting a hotel-room self-portrait while waiting for the rain to stop. I want low, late-afternoon sunlight streaming into the room. The reality is a dark, thundery sky and rain lashing the window in torrents. Now, if only I could make the sun come back...]]></description>
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		<title>Postcard from Bangkok</title>
		<link>http://blog.ianmylam.com/2014/10/postcard-from-bangkok/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2014 16:59:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ian]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[urban and cityscapes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I arrived yesterday in Bangkok to a torrential downpour. Sometimes things look more interesting when you can't see them clearly - for example, when they are viewed through something else - be that water, plastic, netting or simply a dirty window...]]></description>
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		<title>A Quick Two-Speedlight Self-Portrait</title>
		<link>http://blog.ianmylam.com/2014/09/a-quick-two-speedlight-self-portrait/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2014 10:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a “round-number” milestone birthday tomorrow, I thought I’d mark the occasion and the passing of time by turning the camera on myself. Like most photographers, I am much more comfortable on the other side of the lens. However, every now and then I feel compelled to put myself in the position of my subjects. 

Once I had the camera on a tripod and the lights in the rough position I wanted them, the whole shoot took between five and ten minutes. That was about as long as I could stand it. It was pretty hot to be standing in the midday sun in a suit, but I was naked from the waist down which helped keep things cool :) ...]]></description>
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		<title>Living with the Fuji X-E2</title>
		<link>http://blog.ianmylam.com/2014/07/living-with-the-fuji-x-e2/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ianmylam.com/2014/07/living-with-the-fuji-x-e2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2014 00:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ian]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gear]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It’s ten o’clock in the evening, and the sun still has not set. I am sitting outside with a cold beer on a balmy evening watching the sun sink imperceptibly towards the horizon. It’s close to the summer solstice in Denmark – midsummer, or ‘Sankt Hans’ as the Danes call it - and I am currently grounded, recovering from an operation on my shoulder. Neither the sun - nor I - are in any rush. 

Denmark is a wonderful place to be at this time of year, with long, light evenings which seem to go on for ever; there is a glow in the Northern sky the entire night as the sun creeps eastwards, hidden only a few degrees below the Northern horizon. It never truly gets dark around midsummer here. The pay-back for these long days of summer are the short, grey, frequently gloomy days of winter when the sun staggers like a concussed prize fighter into the sky some time after nine in the morning and hangs low for a few short hours, punch-drunk against the ropes, before plunging back below the horizon mid-afternoon, out for the count for another seventeen hours or so. Such is the Yin and the Yang of life in the higher northern latitudes.

As a result of being unable to fly, I haven’t been doing much travelling recently, and haven’t posted much here for a few weeks. It’s now been six months since I switched mirrorless camera systems from Sony Alpha NEX to Fuji X, and being grounded and unable to travel seems like a good opportunity to take stock of my thoughts on the Fuji X system and write a few words about it.

Having lived with the camera for six months, I can tell you that there is a lot to like about the Fuji X-E2 - and the Fuji X lenses. Here's why...]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Tips for Stronger Portraits</title>
		<link>http://blog.ianmylam.com/2014/05/ten-tips-for-stronger-portraits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2014 19:27:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ian]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gear]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've been asked several times recently for tips and advice on shooting travel portraits of strangers, so I thought it might be an idea to post something about the subject.

Here then are my ten tips for stronger travel portraits...  [more after the jump]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Days in Dubai</title>
		<link>http://blog.ianmylam.com/2014/03/two-days-in-dubai/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ianmylam.com/2014/03/two-days-in-dubai/#respond</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2014 02:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ian]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Desert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dubai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Landscape]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[urban and cityscapes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just got back from a very enjoyable couple of days in Dubai, where the annual Gulf Photo Plus photography festival was in full swing. I was in the Business Bay area, walking along the side of a major road which initially looked fairly uninteresting when an image began to take shape in my mind based on the scene in front of me. It took me a while to find the right framing, and involved cropping the image to a square format to align what I could see through the viewfinder with what I could see in my mind's eye, but I eventually found the framing which had tugged at my subconscious and caused me to slow to a halt and break out the camera. 

I then realised that what I really needed was a yellow vehicle to pass by to echo the colour of the yellow lines on the left side of the image. So I staked out this spot for around twenty minutes waiting for a yellow vehicle to come by. A couple of times I saw a yellow vehicle approaching, but by the time it actually reached me, my view of it was partially blocked by other traffic. Eventually I got lucky: an an unobstructed view of an approaching yellow van.

More after the jump...]]></description>
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		<title>Close to Home</title>
		<link>http://blog.ianmylam.com/2014/02/close-to-home/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ianmylam.com/2014/02/close-to-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2014 23:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ian]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Denmark]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like many photographers, I find it easy to get inspired to shoot when I’m travelling. And like many photographers, I struggle to find something to photograph in my back yard. I have driven this stretch of road, a stone’s throw from my home, hundreds – probably thousands – of times before. As usual, I was looking but not really seeing – focusing on driving safely and on simply getting home. I don’t know what it was that first caught my eye, made me slow down and then finally stop the car, but for whatever reason, I began to see, and not just to look.]]></description>
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		<title>Photographers of the world, beware!</title>
		<link>http://blog.ianmylam.com/2014/02/photographers-of-the-world-beware/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ianmylam.com/2014/02/photographers-of-the-world-beware/#respond</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Feb 2014 23:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ian]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gear]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Security madness reigns at London Heathrow Airport!

Today, I had my Giotto Air Rocket Blower - a mighty dangerous-looking dust removal accessory for camera lenses and equipment (see picture) - confiscated on passing through Heathrow Airport Security at Terminal 5 because ‘it might be mistaken for a bomb’.

Read on to find out what happened.]]></description>
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		<title>The X-Factor: Switching from Sony NEX to Fuji X</title>
		<link>http://blog.ianmylam.com/2014/01/the-x-factor-switching-from-sony-nex-to-fuji-x/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ianmylam.com/2014/01/the-x-factor-switching-from-sony-nex-to-fuji-x/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 02:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ian]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gear]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Sony Alpha NEX-7 and the Fujifilm X-E2 are both class-leading mirrorless cameras. Both are capable of producing image files of stunning quality; both are reasonably rugged, well-made cameras of a similar size and weight.

So why did I recently decide to sell my Sony NEX-7 and buy a Fuji X-E2?]]></description>
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