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	<title>mike ricca photography &#187; words</title>
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		<title>The benefits of black &amp; white</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2012/01/the-benefits-of-black-white/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 07:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[black & white]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A recent conversation with photographer buddies made me realize that there are a number of photographers out there that don't work in black &#038; white at all. A number, I'm sure, that's rapidly growing.

However just because you're not familiar with (or even like) black &#038; white photography, it still pays to dabble in it every now and then, for a number of reasons. Not only will it be good for your photographs, it'll be good for your photography.]]></description>
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		<title>The Easy Button</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2011/11/the-easy-button/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2011/11/the-easy-button/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 04:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photoshop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plugin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pskiss]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=2055</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ Overnight, Lightroom became king and Photoshop became the tool I brought out once in a while for more involved retouching. I even avoided taking images into Photoshop after developing them in Lightroom (a common process) simply because Lightroom's simplicity made Photoshop look positively arcane.

At least, it did. I may be rethinking my stance after playing with the PSKiss Toolkits.]]></description>
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		<title>The Good Kind of Profiling</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2011/07/good-kind-profiling/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2011/07/good-kind-profiling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[camera profiles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[presets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pskiss]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=1867</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently got my hands on a copy of the PSKiss Skin &#038; Scenery Color profile and preset pack, and while I'm not much of a preset kinda guy (aside from a few home-cooked ones and a small handful of black &#038; white presets), I was impressed enough with the camera profiles that I figured I'd talk about it some.]]></description>
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		<title>Edumacation</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2011/07/edumacation/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2011/07/edumacation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 17:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[words]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=1816</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While sorting through photos from a recent road trip through the Southwest a couple of weeks ago, I came across a photo that wasn't good enough to keep but made a perfect candidate for a quick demo of the salvaging power of RAW images. I cooked up a quick before/after shot (not unlike the one above) and shared it on Reddit.]]></description>
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		<title>500px is worth a thousand words</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2011/07/500px-worth-thousand-words/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2011/07/500px-worth-thousand-words/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 17:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[500px]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[review]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=1812</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For those not yet familiar with it, 500px is a relatively new photo sharing site that... okay, yes. I know. Another one? But this one is a little different. Whereas Flickr is meant as a sort of "socially-oriented photodump" and SmugMug is meant as a sort of "pro-oriented photodump," 500px is more of a "pro-oriented online portfolio" than anything else.]]></description>
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		<title>Hit the road, Jack</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/hit-the-road-jack/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/hit-the-road-jack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 03:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homecoming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[philippines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=695</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow begins my sojourn back to the Philippines, the first in almost a decade. Half the time, I can hardly believe it.

As much as I hate the term "Developing Nation" (there's nothing wrong with calling it a Third World Country), the moniker is incredibly apt. Metro Manila has been developing at a near-exponential rate, and in the past nine years, the topography of the cities has changed drastically. It will be a homecoming to an unfamiliar place.]]></description>
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		<title>Have we reached the end of the era of &#8220;iconic photojournalism&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/have-we-reached-the-end-of-the-era-of-iconic-photojournalism/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/have-we-reached-the-end-of-the-era-of-iconic-photojournalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[afghan girl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photojournalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tank man]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=680</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I can't help but wonder if, just as we will never again see another band like The Beatles, does the saturation of images brought on by the dSLR revolution and the fragmentation of major news outlets mean we will likewise never again see images with the global and cultural resonance of Afghan Girl or Tank Man? If there is more wheat now than there was chaff yesterday, has it become nigh-impossible for any single image to make a meaningful impact? Have we reached the end of iconic documentary images?]]></description>
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		<title>Day Two</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/01/day-two/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/01/day-two/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[misc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[defrag]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[digital cleanse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[log]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-improvement]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/blog/?p=587</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So I'm a good day or so into the 'cleanse' and it's going well so far. It's actually a little scary how much more time I have in the day, just from cutting out twitter, facebook, and other "distraction" websites.]]></description>
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		<title>Digital Cleanse</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/01/digital-cleanse/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/01/digital-cleanse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[etc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[defrag]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[john mayer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-improvement]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/blog/?p=580</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day, John Mayer (yes, that John Mayer) put forth a challenge for people to go on a "Digital Cleanse," the goal of which to 'defragment' our brains from all the inundation of little bits of chatter we're filling it with constantly.

I decided to take him up on it.]]></description>
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		<title>View Full Size</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2009/11/view-full-size/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2009/11/view-full-size/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lightbox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[slimbox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[update]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/blog/?p=502</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After some fiddling and tinkering, I finally managed to get a simple lightbox installed to let you view the images full-size. ]]></description>
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		<title>USPoS</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2009/09/uspos/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2009/09/uspos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[computer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[damage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hiatus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[post office]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[usps]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/blog/?p=347</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After weeks of waiting until I was all settled in at my new apartment, my computer arrived from San Francisco yesterday -- more worse for wear than I would've liked.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Radio Silence</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2009/08/radio-silence/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2009/08/radio-silence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[words]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/blog/?p=338</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As I'm currently in the middle of a move to New York and my desktop computer is all packed away, my updates will be fairly few and far-between over the next couple of weeks.]]></description>
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		<title>Snewp Bloggy Blog</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2009/07/snewp-bloggy-blog/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2009/07/snewp-bloggy-blog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[words]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/blog/2009/07/snewp-bloggy-blog/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As you can see, I updated my blog. After years of writing my own photoblog code, I decided to put that to pasture and drink the WordPress Kool-Aid. It&#8217;s a much better choice. Their system is infinitely more robust than I could ever have achieved, and it offers a lot of features I never had. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Frugality and The Cost of Owning Stuff</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2009/07/on-frugality-and-the-cost-of-owning-stuff/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2009/07/on-frugality-and-the-cost-of-owning-stuff/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[words]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/blah/?p=5</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It occurs to me that frugality is, ultimately, a security system. In that it seeks to protect something (our money) from something else that wants to take it away (the Need To Own Stuff). And, like most security systems, it&#8217;s designed almost exclusively to keep things out and ignores them once they&#8217;re inside. Typically, when [...]]]></description>
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