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Ten Fail Proof Gifts For Photographers In Your Circles

Ten Fail Proof Gifts For Photographers In Your Circles

Whether weโ€™re ready to admit it or not, the holidays are upon us. I tried as long as I could to ignore the names of the months passing by on the calendar, but, well, once Daylight Savings Time hit, denial turned to grief turned to acceptance turned to โ€˜ok, fine, letโ€™s do this thing!โ€™ Anyhow, chances are thereโ€™s a photographer in your family or group of friends that youโ€™ll have to shop for, and while we're certainly a famously finicky bunch, I guarantee you, thereโ€™s still something that photographer โ€œneeds.โ€ So hereโ€™s a list of things that will help turn that psychosis-inducing task of figuring it out into the easiest checkmark on your shopping list. Here are 10 fail-proof gifts for photographers in your circles.

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My Second Research Term For The Arcanum: Chromatic Aberration. Why? It's Annoyingโ€ฆ

My Second Research Term For The Arcanum: Chromatic Aberration. Why? It's Annoyingโ€ฆ

So if you read my post My First Research Term For The Arcanum: Silence. Why? It's Complicatedโ€ฆ, youโ€™d know what this is all about. As Robin Griggs Woodโ€™s apprentice in Trey Ratcliffโ€™s Arcanum, part of each weekโ€™s challenge is to research a term that relates to creativity. While the first term I researched was silence, this time, I chose "chromatic aberration.โ€ Whether you know what it is or not, youโ€™ve seen it, youโ€™ve experienced it, and itโ€™s annoyed the living crap out of you, so hereโ€™s a basic breakdown of the bugger and what Iโ€™ve found. What Exactly Is Chromatic Aberration?

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My First Research Term For The Arcanum: Silence. Why? It's Complicated...

My First Research Term For The Arcanum: Silence. Why? It's Complicated...

Part of the deal as an apprentice in The Arcanum is each week we are presented with a weekly challenge by our master, and with each weekly challenge, in addition to finding images based on a theme, we are to find a term that relates to creativity in some way (however broad is up to us) and research that term and what we found out about it. So while I was trying to think of what term I wanted to research for my first weekly challenge, I found myself navigating my way through the eternal Facebook stream of doom, looking for a post I saw earlier from a friend that I wanted to comment on, and all I could see are BE SCARED EBOLA OBAMA DEMOCRAPUBLICANS TERRORISM EBOLA LIBERAL HELL WRATH CONSERVATIVE RACIST FIRE DOOM DIE OH YEAH AND EBOLA when all I could think to myself was, โ€˜shut up already!โ€™ So, that was the birth of the term I wanted to research for my first weekly challenge in The Arcanum: Silence.

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My Experience In Trey Ratcliffโ€™s The Arcanum - Level 3: Wasim The Inspired!

My Experience In Trey Ratcliffโ€™s The Arcanum - Level 3: Wasim The Inspired!

So this is where it all got real. The experiences, the Networks, The Challenges. Itโ€™s all part of the process here in The Arcanum, but all of it, at first, seems a bit disconnected, another virtual forum, albeit a more positively engaging one sans the trolls and the, but, still,

I am now Wasim The Inspired!!

And with that, things immediately get a bit more serious.

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My Experience In Trey Ratcliffโ€™s The Arcanum - Levels 1 & 2

My Experience In Trey Ratcliffโ€™s The Arcanum - Levels 1 & 2

So if you havenโ€™t heard of it yet, you need to hear of it before yet. Like now. Right now. Itโ€™s the future of learning and education, itโ€™s based on the master/apprentice model, it was created by Trey Ratcliff, and it's called The Arcanum.

The idea is simpleโ€ฆa master chooses an apprentice, and the apprentice learns the craft. The craft in this case is photography. The executionโ€ฆis seemingly brilliant. Using todayโ€™s technologies - everything from real time screen sharing and VR on-location sharing - mixed with a structured and tiered leveling system, and you have yourself what could be a glimpse into the future of education.

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