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		<title>The importance of timing</title>
		<link>http://partakers.net/2011/03/the-importance-of-timing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:39:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>beakennedy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last fall, my friends Jean and Bob and I decided to go waterfall hunting. We only made it to two before the sun got too low in the sky, but it was a beautiful fall day, and we had a great time. I&#8217;ve been so busy trying to get things in order to officially open up shop that I haven&#8217;t had much time to look at the images that were made that day. Just a couple of quick glances at a few that immediately stood out either at the time I clicked the shutter or later in breezing through them in Lightroom. One image in particular that stood out when I clicked the shutter was made as I walked across a bridge at the top of the first waterfall. As I zig zagged from one side to the other, first capturing little pools of water in the afternoon sun, then the gathering swirls of water preparing to plunge down the hillside, I looked up and saw the perfect combination of afternoon sun skimming across gold and yellow tree tops, and a very ominous looking storm cloud that hadn&#8217;t been there the last time I looked that direction. I immediately went over to that side of the bridge and took my shots, then continued on to catch up with Bob and Jean who were pretty far ahead of me at this point. Just when I caught up to them on the other side of the falls, the storm cloud dumped its....]]></description>
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		<title>Seeing Eternity in a Moment</title>
		<link>http://partakers.net/2010/07/seeing-eternity-in-a-moment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 05:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>beakennedy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first title of the Partakers.Net blog was, &#8220;Killing Time: Pity the person who has not yet begun to live for eternity.&#8221; With that mindset, it&#8217;s been somewhat difficult to deal with the fact that, as a photographer, my product is pieces of paper. How long does paper last? Most of it doesn&#8217;t last very long at all before it gets consigned to the landfill. Not much substance to stick my eternal fork into. My current printer&#8217;s ink combined with archival paper and proper care is rated to last more than 100 years &#8211; a good long time, but still not eternal. Recently I was reminded, however, that photographs often outlast the person depicted in them for at least a generation or two, maybe longer if properly cared for. And it&#8217;s often the photographs left behind that define a life for later generations. I have several pictures of my maternal grandmother who died before I was old enough to remember her. Those pictures and a few stories ARE my grandma, not in the sense of her soul being captured by the photograph as some believe, but in the sense that they are the only representations I have of her life. Add a few memories of my own for my other grandparents, who have all died long ago, and all of the sudden, those photographs take on a significance that I haven&#8217;t thought about nearly enough. So, it was with quite a bit of surprise that I got home from a....]]></description>
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		<title>Under the Fence</title>
		<link>http://partakers.net/2010/06/under-the-fence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>beakennedy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Appalachians]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fool]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes there&#8217;s just no other perspective than the one that has you flat on your belly, face in the grass making friends and strangers alike wonder what in the world is so compelling that you&#8217;d make a fool of yourself in public like that.  Nothing wrong with the end of the fence shots.  Nothing wrong with the through the fence shots.  But then I noticed this little piece of fence that was lifted up off the ground just enough for me to poke a lens through . . . . All this must have reminded my husband of the first time he witnessed me lay down by the side of the road in the Appalachians in order to get the shot I wanted. ]]></description>
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		<title>Baby M</title>
		<link>http://partakers.net/2010/06/baby-m/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>beakennedy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the great pleasure of photographing Baby M, not just once, but twice.  First a spur of the moment shoot with grandma, who was babysitting when I stopped by on an errand, and again the following week with Mom and Dad.]]></description>
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		<title>Almost missed it</title>
		<link>http://partakers.net/2010/02/almost-missed-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>beakennedy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning we awoke to a world of sparkling white fluff covering everything. Luckily I got off work in time to throw on a hat and coat, hop in the car, and capture a bit of it.]]></description>
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		<title>Big, Bigger, Biggest</title>
		<link>http://partakers.net/2010/01/big-bigger-biggest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>beakennedy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With much fear and trepidation, I&#8217;ve finally ordered my first box of really big paper for the new printer. The guys over at Luminous Landscape gave it such a good review, and the price was reasonable, so I figured it was about time to give it a try. I&#8217;ve done some 8 x 10&#8242;s and some 11 x 14s (on 13 x 19 paper) so far and been really impressed. It seems that other people have been impressed with the quality of the prints so far. I have frames to accommodate my first big prints, so stay tuned for a picture of the completed wall sometime in the near future.]]></description>
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		<title>Speaking of Spyders</title>
		<link>http://partakers.net/2009/11/speaking-of-spyders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>beakennedy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I knew this going in, but with the acquisition of a large format printer (the Epson 3880 &#8211; more on that later &#8211; so far very impressive) comes a whole &#8216;nuther skill set &#8211; color management. I&#8217;ve been poking around the edges of this without really doing much about it as long as I&#8217;ve been manipulating photos on the computer and creating web pages on the Internet. Now it&#8217;s time to get serious. In order to help me do that, I began looking at color calibration tools as soon as I started seriously considering the Epson. No sense having a nice printer like that if I can&#8217;t get the prints I expect to out of it. After looking at several of the moderately priced systems, I finally settled on the Spyder3 Studio by Datacolor (they have a newer model out now &#8211; the Spyder3 Studio SR). Why? Mainly I liked what I was reading in the reviews, and the system could handle both ends of the process &#8211; monitor and printer &#8211; without breaking the budget. Installation of the software and callibration of my laptop monitor was a breeze. I&#8217;m seeing variations of color in all my applications that were never there before. Subjectively, the results are great. When it came time to try the printer callibration, I ran into a glitch in the Windows version of the software that made it impossible to proceed through reading the target pattern. That might have been an annoyance except that the technical....]]></description>
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		<title>How am I doing?</title>
		<link>http://partakers.net/2009/10/how-am-i-doing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>beakennedy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christ]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, the year is quickly drawing to a close. Fall color is quickly flying past, and it&#8217;s time to take look back at the &#8220;New Year&#8217;s resolution post&#8221; and check progress. - Get Organized. Nope. Not an inch of progress. I did manage to give the site a face lift this summer, though. - Show Off. Currently working on selecting some pictures to make LARGE living room sized prints from. Contests? I&#8217;ve entered a few online that weren&#8217;t outright &#8220;rights grabs&#8221; where you have to give up all your rights to your photo whether you win the contest or not. Last night, though, I actually did win a place in my very first photo contest with this shot: I guess the winning photos will be in the newspaper sometime in the near future, so I guess I get another 15 minutes of fame. Sharing online? Some sort of consistency would probably help. Still struggling there. - Try something new. Well, just about the time the weather was getting nice enough for me to start getting out the Bender, we had to go and move. Now that the year is nearly over, I&#8217;m finally pretty much done with all that, so I hope to start playing with that again. I&#8217;ve been looking at large format printers since the summer. My husband may have just made it possible for me to actually acquire one of these, and I believe there is still a rebate going on for the one I want which....]]></description>
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		<title>Picture of the Day</title>
		<link>http://partakers.net/2009/09/picture-of-the-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>beakennedy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeing stuff like this always makes me wish I had the decorating gene. I don&#8217;t. Boy do I don&#8217;t!!! I see nice stuff in the store but never think it might look nice in my house. I see nice arrangements in other people&#8217;s houses and never think to try to do something similar in my house. I go shopping for food regularly but never think to go shopping for anything else. I suppose I could hire someone, but i never think to do that either. Hey! At least I have matching lamps in the living room for the first time in my life.]]></description>
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		<title>I ♥ Faces &#8211; Green</title>
		<link>http://partakers.net/2009/03/i-%e2%99%a5-faces-green/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>beakennedy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so I&#8217;ve been spending way more time out with the camera instead of sitting in front of the computer, and a whole month has passed. I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m all that disappointed. But since the subject is Green at I ♥ Faces this week, here&#8217;s a little green.]]></description>
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