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My early birthday gift to myself.

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In the past 2 days a few things have happened. I now have a newfound appreciation for people who can take really good photographs. Granted, I've had my share of good shots from my most amaturish devices, but I realize that those images are not appealing because of the subject matter or the skill in manipulating the device's settings so as to achieve an attractive result. I't is merely a case of good directing. I just happen to take good pictures of people because I can tell them what to do - in other words how to work their angles. Now personally, I don't think that is a particular skill set. I just think that its a matter of peering into the viewfinder and asking your subject to shift slightly and then actually snapping the photo when the person being photograph looks their best. NOTHING or little to do with actual photography at all - well except for composition. As for the actual shutter speed, exposure and aperture settings... well....that's why we have cool pre

Loose ends

Good morning upper east-siders. I'm back from my long and rather barren hiatus, simply because I feel like I finally have something to talk about again. Or rather I've got some pent up frustrations that I'd like to get off my chest through my rapidly typing fingers. I yearn for social contact beyond my job. I miss the wide variety of friends I could meet up with when I was just a mere student. I find that now... that I actually have money to spend, to go to the places that I want to go to, there seems to be no one there to go with. Sure I would go alone, but that just screams pathetic to me, and, well I think I already have too much free time alone. I really miss... well I can't tell you who I miss because I haven't even told that person yet and I think that he - yes it is a he - should hear it from me first. I thoroughly dislike goodbyes, but I feel that it is one of those necessities in life, for our minds to generate a feeling of well being from knowing that a re