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		<title>Important things to remember</title>
		<link>http://www.michaelsweeneyphotography.com/blog/2012/01/07/important-things-to-remember/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Sweeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a short piece today.. I found an awesome short video that reminds us of the important things. Enjoy!]]></description>
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		<title>Long Live the Pocket Camera, the Pocket Camera is dead</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 05:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Sweeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yet another single use device has bitten the dust or I should say, is biting the dust even as I type this. The "pocket camera" or "Point and shoot" is dying a fast and unlamented death. The cause of death is the smart phone of which no matter which one you use, iPhone, Droid etc, now have a reasonable camera built in. It's the old "good enough" syndrome of the consumer. The smart phone hits the mark in convenience and is good enough for most consumers to grab that snapshot.]]></description>
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		<title>Altered Memories</title>
		<link>http://www.michaelsweeneyphotography.com/blog/2010/11/21/altered-memories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2010 15:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Sweeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I heard a comment the other day where the speaker made a reference to how well his childrens early years are documented due to digital camera, video recorders and cellphones. The more important mention was how all this documentation has already altered their memories of the early years. I thought about it some and yes, I think he is right. My own children have more images and movies of themselves from the last several years than I do from 40 plus years. They watch themselves on the TV or computer play at 6 months old over and over. These memories have been burned into their memory now by just raw repetitiveness. 
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		<title>The art of selling</title>
		<link>http://www.michaelsweeneyphotography.com/blog/2010/09/28/the-art-of-selling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 03:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Sweeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Selling? selling what you ask? Isn't that the same as the photography business? Not so much as it turns out. To be a professional photographer is as much or more about selling than it is your images. Sounds a bit off doesn't it? I mean images are my stock in trade, it's how people judge me, right? Not exactly as it turns out. When you are trying to sell a wedding for example, you are selling something of a dream to the bride. She wants her day captured in the best possibly light and in a style that she likes. But what she does not understand or at least most dont, is that she is also judging you, the photographer. How well you relate to her, how well you two can talk and laugh and most importantly, how much she trusts you in order to pay a fair amount of money for something she wont see till after the wedding is over and the guests have gone home.]]></description>
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		<title>Down the rabbit hole</title>
		<link>http://www.michaelsweeneyphotography.com/blog/2010/07/16/down-the-rabbit-hole/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 04:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Sweeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you need to be reminded what the priority should be and not what your think it is. I decided a few weeks back I wanted a new website where the site and the blog were one and the same. I dislike most "Photography" blogs since you end up with miles of images to scroll down through. I like blogs that are informational like what I'm doing right now. I dont like pages of stuff just to look at. The website has images and key info but it's pretty static, too static in my opinion for today's customer. So I start to look around. This blog is based on Wordpress and I can use a "Theme" to divide up the content and give a "look and feel" to it that fits with my branding or my personality.]]></description>
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		<title>Off Topic</title>
		<link>http://www.michaelsweeneyphotography.com/blog/2010/06/19/off-topic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Sweeney</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.michaelsweeneyphotography.com/blog/?p=789</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, he sorta of died in a sense. To be precise, the person I knew did die but his body is still alive and kicking. He had a ruptured brain aneurysm which in turn led to a stroke that almost killed him in the shower. They got him to the hospital in time to save him but he spent weeks there, paralyzed on one side, till they moved him to a halfway house for more recovery. I went and saw him often at both places and I helped him go home. Success right? I mean he survived a terrible event and now is back home on his own.  Yes and no, my friend is home but the essence of who my friend was is gone. The unmentioned fact about many brain injury victims is that their self, their personality, who they are will change or be lost completely and replaced by someone else.]]></description>
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		<title>Traveling Light</title>
		<link>http://www.michaelsweeneyphotography.com/blog/2010/04/13/traveling-light/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 23:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Sweeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don't you just love being invited to see someone's travel pictures? Does the groan escape your lips before you can stop yourself or do you just bite the bullet and suffer quietly? But here is the kicker question, how do YOUR travel pics look to everyone else? hmmmmm?  Thought so..  so here are some tips on creating memorable travel shots that wont point your  audience to sleep OR cost you and arm and a leg in glass.]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone Camera, toy or real?</title>
		<link>http://www.michaelsweeneyphotography.com/blog/2010/03/13/iphone-camera-toy-or-real/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Sweeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is very cool about the iPhone camera is the ability to shoot and send it right away via email or SMS. There have been times where I found something for sale, shot it, sent it with a question and gotten a response back in time to grab a deal. You can shoot barcodes and get the lowest price in the area for the widget, talk about leveling the playing field. I  have used it to shoot impromptu location scouting trips where I see a place that I like and I rip off several images to keep on the phone]]></description>
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		<title>Self Improvement or how to Stop Whining and start Learning</title>
		<link>http://www.michaelsweeneyphotography.com/blog/2010/03/03/self-improvement-or-how-to-stop-whining-and-start-learning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Sweeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now in photography with things changing very quickly, I hear photographers complaining about the same thing. It's too expensive, I dont have time, it's too far and a host of other excuses. Lets see, I pay for my training out of pocket since I dont work for a studio, I travel across the country a few times a year to get to it and I have to juggle my three kids at home with the training. Somehow I manage to get it to work out and I'm a better photographer for it. A few days of expert advice can save me months of time trying to work out techniques on my own. And thats not counting the peers I've met and friendships that have come around from my classes. Success in the business world is as much about the personal network you have as it is how well you can shoot and process pictures. Sometimes it's more important as I have had a couple of gigs land in my lap not because I'm a well known shooter (not yet) but because I knew someone who knew someone else.
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		<title>Art is where you find it</title>
		<link>http://www.michaelsweeneyphotography.com/blog/2010/02/27/art-is-where-you-find-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Sweeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Art is truly where you find it and you can find it in some pretty unusual places while glued to  a car seat. It will also force you to consider your post processing workflow where as the image might be "so-so" without any enhancements but with a crop job and some good post work, it's a keeper image.]]></description>
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