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		<title>30 Seconds At A Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This series of images is just for those who lay awake at night wondering what happens if you leave the shutter on your camera open for 30 seconds while along the road at the south side of Keweenaw Bay. I happened to be driving home last night so I decided to give it a try.
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		<title>Things that make you go hmm&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Feeling a little creative frustration with all the white outside (aka snow) so I decided to find something inside to shoot. Here are a few things that caught my eye.
   
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		<title>Stormy Night in Paradise</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 23:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Riutta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, we had quite a storm that came through in the early morning hours. We all slept through it, but when we finally did get to the beach we found it a complete mess.

As you can see it looked like everything that was ever deposited in the ocean was now beached at our resort. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We be in Jamaica. Yaw Mon.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 13:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Riutta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes. We be in Jamaica. It&#8217;s been a struggle dealing with the warm tropical climate and abundant sunshine, but we soldier on. 

Arrival day was all good. It&#8217;s always good when you make it to you destination with all your baggage intact. It was my first experience going through customs, but that too was all good. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Entertainment In The U.P&#8230;. It&#8217;s About Community</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Riutta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So why is it that we always feel the need to justify the price we paid for an item or service? Maybe it&#8217;s because we have felt so challenged by the high cost of just existing lately. I think we all want to enjoy our summer time, but with the cost of everything else rising [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yak, Yak, Yak and a Slice of Bread&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Riutta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So what do you get when you put a slice of bread in your backyard at lunchtime? A flock of happy yakkers!
So if you read my previous post you already realize that I have a yard full of European Starlings and their fledglings. The fledglings mission is to yak enough so as to have food [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yak, Yak, Yak (That’s bird talk for “Feed Me!”)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 18:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Riutta</dc:creator>
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When I first captured a picture of these interestingly colored birds and looked it up online I was surprised to find out it was European Starling. First of all I was fascinated with their color and how it changed in different light, but secondly was that they made that trip all the way from Europe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patience Is A Virtue, 53 Weeks A Year?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 03:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Riutta</dc:creator>
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Any experienced photographer can attest to the importance of patience. In this digital age of photography one would think that a hit and run, mafia like approach would generate far more keepers than in the film days. Just hold down the shutter and rattle off a couple dozen frames. One of those is bound to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1 Year and 42,000 Clicks Later</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 04:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Riutta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to imagine that a little over a year ago I got my Canon 20D digital SLR camera. I updated my spreadsheet where I track the total files downloaded from the camera and guess what&#8230; since May 2nd of last year I have taken 42,597 photos with it! I know that sounds a little&#8230; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catching a sunset&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Riutta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always been fascinated with sunsets and have tried on many occasions to capture them in photos. Anyone who has  ever tried  doing so I think will agree that it can be quite a challenge.There are a number of things working against a photographer trying to capture a sunset. First of all there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Warming Up In Texas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Riutta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The long awaited Texas trip to visit Lori&#8217;s son, brother and sister in law was finally under way. This year I was taking my full set of camera gear with me hoping to get some good shots of the Nascar race on Sunday. As it turned out, over the course of 5 days I got [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is a 2x Extender worth using?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do a web search for &#8220;Canon 2x extender&#8221; and you will find quite an assortment of articles, tests and discussions on whether it is worth using. The problem is that adding an extender means adding more glass which means more image degradation. Actually, it stands to reason that the more glass you put in front [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What it takes to catch a bird</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
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If you have never tried then you probably don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m talking about. It seems relatively easy. You see a bird in a feeder and so you point the camera at it and snap off a picture. Darn! He moved just as I pressed the shutter release. So you try again. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Legacy for My Time&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
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I can still hear my parents talking to my grandparents and aunts and uncles about going to see Dave play. This of course was a long time ago mind you. Way before I even considered playing guitar. I don&#8217;t recall if it was a weekly event or not, but it obviously happened enough that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WordPress to the rescue&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 22:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m trying something new in regards to a blog site. It seems everyone is using WordPress for their Blogs lately so I have have been struggling through getting my own site going. It&#8217;s not that it&#8217;s that difficult to do, just that I expected a more graphical interface like I was doing with iWeb. Well, [...]]]></description>
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