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		<title>Check out our Archives Section!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I realize that many of our readers have probably checked out our &#8220;Archives&#8221; section located at the top of our blog in the header, but for those that haven&#8217;t, check out our Archives. I have let it go but recently updated it. What I&#8217;ve done is made a list of all of our articles posted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dead Puppies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dead puppies&#8230; now that sounds morbid, doesn&#8217;t it? Believe it or not, my customers think it&#8217;s pretty funny. They think it&#8217;s funnier than saying “cheese”. I do too, but that is, in context, which I will explain in just a second.
My friend told me once that what it is that makes a joke funny is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://piecesofthepicture.com/2009/01/05/dead-puppies/</link>
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		<title>Ten ways to get your subjects to relax for you</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever have problems getting your subjects to relax? Here’s a quick list of ten different groups and ways you can get all of them to loosen up a bit. After years of photographing each of these, I have learned what it takes to get each to relax for me, be themselves and even smile.
The thing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://piecesofthepicture.com/2009/01/03/ten-ways-to-get-your-subjects-to-relax-for-you/</link>
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		<title>Spotlight interview with Kerry Singh of Faerytale Photography</title>
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Sometimes, and actually quite frequently you run across someone&#8217;s work that really inspires you and for very specific reasons. Today&#8217;s guest is one of those people for me. She is Kerry Singh and like many of the wonderful photographers featured here on Pieces of the Picture, I found her on flickr. Her work is amazing. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://piecesofthepicture.com/2009/01/02/spotlight-interview-with-kerry-singh-of-lightsongs-photography/</link>
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		<title>Rules are meant to be broken</title>
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We haven&#8217;t had a &#8220;Thought for Thursday&#8221; in a while. Well today is the first day of 2009 and I thought to myself, what the heck, let&#8217;s do it. Today we&#8217;ll look at the idea of making sure every single shot you take is perfect and weather or not technical imperfections ruin photographs.
Rules are meant [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://piecesofthepicture.com/2009/01/01/rules-are-meant-to-be-broken/</link>
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		<title>Fifteen things you need for a great senior portrait - #7 - Location - Part 1</title>
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In an earlier post, in this same series, I mentioned the scenario where you have a portrait of a senior leaning against a tree. Boring. Right? Yeah, it&#8217;s boring and it&#8217;s been done too many times. In this post, I will mainly discuss location portraiture. The topic is a nice scene. The location you pick [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://piecesofthepicture.com/2008/12/31/fifteen-things-you-need-for-a-great-senior-portrait-6-location-part-1/</link>
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		<title>Ten ways you should prepare for a wedding</title>
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This post will deal with ten ways that you as a photographer should prepare for a big photographic event such as a wedding or other important event in which you want to be totally prepared. Once you have been shooting these events with some regularity, this sort of list may be second nature to you, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://piecesofthepicture.com/2008/12/29/ten-ways-you-should-prepare-for-a-wedding/</link>
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		<title>Spotlight interview with Danny Iskandar</title>
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Today we are interviewing Danny Iskandar from Fishers, IN. He is an internationally recognized wedding photojournalist. His work is amazing and awe-inspiring. What I noticed most about his wedding work and possibly even more from his engagement work is just how natural his subjects look. It is so real and so emotional and yet they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://piecesofthepicture.com/2008/12/26/spotlight-interview-with-danny-iskander/</link>
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		<title>Elf Yourself</title>
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Today we&#8217;re gonna get a little sidetracked for something fun! Recently I got an email from my friend Marla and she was wishing me a Merry Christmas. I usually don&#8217;t like wasting time with silly emails but when I clicked into this email, I laughed so hard and thought about the possibilities with my own [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://piecesofthepicture.com/2008/12/25/elf-yourself/</link>
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		<title>Just tell us what you want!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Suggestions, I&#8217;m taking suggestions!
I&#8217;m taking time today to tell all our readers that we really appreciate all the time that you guys take to read our blog and comment when you do. We spend many hours each week preparing blog posts that we think will benefit you. If you&#8217;ve read more than just a few [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://piecesofthepicture.com/2008/12/24/just-tell-us-what-you-want/</link>
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