I have a strong belief that the art of capturing a beautiful photograph is one that can be mastered by anyone. It is a simple and accessible medium for artistic expression. The ability to immerse yourself into a situation or another culture and experience the depth of it and then bring that story to light through images, this is where i believe the state of the art lies.
Our world is full of stories, every person on this planet could write a riveting novel telling of their lives. To see the differences in our cultures and in each other and discover these stories is what makes life so rich. It brings us together. Fearing these differences and closing our eyes to these stories is what divides us. If you take a step outside you will see that people in all countries laugh and cry, have sons and daughters, friends and families and we all fall in love. We must always travel in the direction of our fear, or that fear will become us.
I hope you can enjoy these stories i have discovered as much as i did discovering them.
Often when developing plugins or scripts that need to support new features and older versions of wordpress it is neccessery to determine the currently running version of a wordpress install. There are a number of ways to do this, although i believe the solution that i offer up is the best to future proof your code. Often developers will use complex string position or...
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I sometimes wonder if there is a better way of things, a fairer way. A direction away from the consumption driven, egotistical and totally unsustainable path of capitalism. A place where the values of family, community and the environment take priority. The well being of the whole and not just the gifted few. Is this a Utopian Marxists dream? Only time holds the...
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Late 2009 to early 2010 i spent 4 months or so riding a motorcycle around the indescribebly beautiful country of Iran. Despite what image the media may portray, the people of Iran are some of the friendliest and most hospitibal i have encounterd in all my wanderings. During my stay in Iran I rarely found myself lodging at a hotel or hostel as i was constantly staying...
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If your interested in reading the well formed ramblings of a close friend of my’n head on over to his travel blog. Growing up in the same small town we hail from the same social group that is intensely addicted to life on the road. As memory serves me right… Chris has been to every continent on this little planet of ours. Also as a side note he is pretty...
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