Sam’s Throne Arkansas

Description: Sam’s throne is primaliy known as a premier rock climbing area in the Ozarks. The legend dates back to the 1820s. Buffalo hunter and farmer Sam Davis roamed Arkansas valleys in what is now Newton County, searching for a sister he claimed was kidnapped by Indians. Davis climbed the

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Lightroom 2 Tips – Keyboard Shortcuts

  Working in Lightroom, as most graphics software is a constant struggle between the mouse and the keyboard.  Lightroom offers keyboard shortcuts (A keyboard shortcut is a key or set of keys that performs a predefined function) for almost any task. I prefer to use the mouse for most things since I

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Alum Cove Natural Bridge Arkansas

Description: Outstanding among the many natural features of the Ozark Natural Forest is the huge stone arch that forms a natural bridge at Alum Cove National Recreation Trail. The natural arch is all that remains of what was a quartz sandstone cave. The arch is 130 feet long and 20

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Tarpon Springs Florida

Tarpon Springs Florida The Sponge Industry helped build a Greek Community that is now famous not only for the worlds finest sponges, but for some of the finest Greek Restaurants, Markets, and Bakeries in the Country. What you will find at the Tarpon Springs Sponge Docks: Greek Restaurants, Bakeries, Natural

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Lightroom 2 – Keywords Part 1

  Note:  All information is based upon Windows operating system and Lightroom 2.2 Keywords (or Tags) are probably the greatest organization tool for photographers.  Implementation of keywords may seem to be very time consuming and complicated.  Well it is time consuming, if you have a properly set up keyword hierarchy

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Lightroom 2 – File Organization

Note:  All information is based upon Windows operating system and Lightroom 2.2. As I mentioned in the first Lightroom post, one of the great advantages of Lightroom is the ability to find your photos.  This ability exists even if your pictures are scattered all over your hard drive, or even multiple

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Garden of Lights

On Sunday my son Matt, friends Jim and Teresa and I went to the Garden of Lights in Muskogee Oklahoma.  This was a good trip to do some creative Night Photography.  Posted below are some of my shots from the trip.             All the information in this

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Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge

Established in 1970, Sequoyah NWR is one of more than 540 refuges in the United States.  The refuge name honors Sequoyah, a Native American, who invented a Cherokee alphabet consisting of syllables that allowed his tribe to preserve their traditions and history in writing. By the close of the century,

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Lightroom Tips and Lessons #1

    Adobe Photoshop Lightroom  is my program of choice for my photography work-flow.  Is it perfect? absolutely not,  I have a long list of things I would like to see changed and features added.  Overall however I feel it is the best thing going right now.  I have spent

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