Become a Better Digital Photographer One Assignment at a Time There is no better way to learn than by doing. While theories histories best practices & sciences ground a thorough knowledge of any subject at some point you have to apply that information to truly garner knowledge. This book provides real-world assignments that guide prospective photographers to a true understanding & mastery of the craft. Each assignment

Includes:: a list of goals detailed instructions illustrations & examples. Individual assignments build on one another allowing your mastery to grow as the book continues. Learn about the capabilities & limitations of your equipment; the proper ways to expose a scene for digital capture; dos & don'ts of cropping & scene placement; how to color manage a scene in-camera; & how to see manipulate & augment light to obtain the best possible native files.

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In this powerful book Roger Housden harnesses the unique ability of poetry to touch the readers inner-most feelings. For everyone who knows there is more to life than they are currently experiencing it aims to bring an awakening... Through the voices of ten very individual poets Housden directs each of us to examine the universal themes that pursue us through life: those that stir our eternal emotions & desires. The ten poems presented are timeless; affecting us with a powerful sense of reality & moving us to alter the way we view ourselves & the world. With a penetrating commentary on each of the poems Housden provides an insight into his own spiritual journey & invites us to contemplate the significance of the poets message in our own lives. ...

This title contains: The Umbrella Man"; " Dip in the Pool"; " The Butler"; " The Hitchhiker"; " Mr Botibol"; " My Lady Love" " My Dove"; " The Way Up to Heaven"; " Parsons Pleasure"; " The Sound Machine"; & " The Wish"." ...

You can feel confident about life & gain an optimistic outlook with Windy Dryden's practical straightforward advice. These ten steps will encourage you to take control be flexible accept reality come to like & be fair to yourself accept change & improve your relationships with others. You can follow the steps in order or use them individually to attain your goals. Either way these few basic guidelines for happy living will equip you to tackle anything life can throw at you. ...

Sebastian Grey is in limbo. He is the heir presumptive to the Earl of Newbury unless the current earl a widower can find a bride who will bear him a son. Newbury is in his sixties & somewhat portly but as an earl he's considered quite a catch. Sebastian on the other hand is twenty-nine & extremely handsome but in no hurry to find a wife. Annabel Winslow a country girl through & through has received an offer to go to London for the season. The eldest of a family of eight she knows that a good marriage might be the only thing that will save her family from ruin. After a few weeks in town Annabel attracts the attention of the Earl of Newbury. The thought of submitting to him makes her skin crawl but she is practical & determined to do her duty. Even when Sebastian Grey comes on the scene. ...

I dont know how old I was when I watched my mothers murder nor do I know how old I am today. The illegitimate daughter of a peasant & an American GI Elizabeth Kim spent her early years as a social outcast in her village in the Korean countryside. Ostracized by their family & neighbours she & her mother were regularly pelted with stones on their way home from the rice fields. Yet there was a tranquil happiness in the intense bond between mother & daughter until the day that Elizabeths grandfather & uncle came to punish her mother from the dishonour she had brought on the family & executed her in front of her daughter. Elizabeth was dumped in an orphanage in Seoul. After some time she was lucky enough to be adopted by an American couple. But when she arrived in America she found herself once again surrounded by fanaticism & prejudice. Elizabeths mother had always told her that life was made up of ten thousand joys as well as ten thousand sorrows & supported by her loving daughter & by a return to her Buddhist faith she finally found a way to savour those joys as well as the courage to exorcise the demons of her past. ...

A vivid gripping novel about corruption integrity & good intentions gone wrong set in an African country on the brink of civil war for fans of John le Carre Graham Greene & William Boyd. As Ed & Sarah Caines plane passes over the Ngozi hills & begins its descent into Kisuru Sarah is dazzled by the purity of unspoiled nature the perfect environment in which to raise their son. Ed meanwhile as Director of the Global Justice Alliance for East Africa looks forward to rolling up his sleeves & making a real difference in a country that seems to be developing fast. Below them in the sprawling Makera slum Stephen Odinga
- who has to find a way of making more money for his dying mother than they can earn through the family business selling fried bananas
- decides to try a more lucrative line of business. Meanwhile Joseph Kamunda a senior official in a government that for five years has been failing to deliver on its promise to end political corruption is feeling isolated & exposed while others around him covertly seek personal advantage out of International Aid programmes. & beyond the hills a rebel army seethes & waits poised to tip the country into civil war. Before he knows it the duplicity Ed thinks he has left behind in England will begin to infect his own family. Ten Weeks in Africa explores in urgent breathtaking prose the tensions between our ideals & our reality the deep rifts of cultural misunderstanding & the true cost of uninformed good intentions.

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' Yes it was be there or be square as clad in the slum chic of the hipster he issued the slang anthems of the zip age in the desperate esperanto of the bop. John Cooper Clarke: the name behind the hairstyle the words walk in the grooves hacking through the hi-fi paradise of true luxury.' Punk. Poet. Pioneer. The Bard of Salford's seminal collection is as scabrous wry & vivid now as it was when first published over 25 years ago. ' The godfather of British performance poetry' Daily Telegraph. ...

A controversial artist is found dead in her own art installation inside a riverside gallery with locked doors & windows
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful & sometimes violent novel of expectation love oppression sin religion & betrayal. It portrays the disintegration of the marriage of Helen Huntingdon the mysterious 'tenant' of the title & her dissolute alcoholic husb&. Defying convention Helen leaves her husband to protect their young son from his father's influence & earns her own living as an artist. Whilst in hiding at Wildfell Hall she encounters Gilbert Markham who falls in love with her. On its first publication in 1848 Anne Bronts second novel was criticised for being 'coarse' & 'brutal'. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall challenges the social conventions of the early nineteenth century in a strong defence of women's rights in the face of psychological abuse from their husbands. Anne Bront?'s style is bold naturalistic & passionate & this novel which her sister Charlotte considered 'an entire mistake' has earned her a position in English Literature in her own right. ...