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	<title>mike ricca photography &#187; people</title>
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		<title>animals and children</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2011/10/animals-and-children/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2011/10/animals-and-children/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While on my two-week sojourn back to The Bay, a friend and ex-coworker reached out to me. I'd shot her son's first birthday a couple years back and as the family had since increased by one, they were hoping for some family portraits. I was more than happy to oblige.]]></description>
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		<title>hot couture</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2011/07/hot-couture/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2011/07/hot-couture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 23:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[fashion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I had arranged my last trip to San Francisco, the very first thing I did after booking my flight was send out an email to Paciano Triufo, Ann Borja, and Roczane Enriquez, photographers and make-up artist (respectively) extraordinaire and good friends from my theatre days with Bindlestiff. I'd always wanted to work with on a shoot but had never had the chance, so when the chance presented itself, I hopped right on it.]]></description>
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		<title>the perils of being a wallflower</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2011/06/the-perils-of-being-a-wallflower/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2011/06/the-perils-of-being-a-wallflower/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 04:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[people]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[balls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neil gaiman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opportunity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=1765</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most important yet rarely-mentioned traits you need to be a good photographer is shamelessness. How far would Steve McCurry, Nick Ut, or Dorothea Lange gotten if they had said to themselves "I'll just stand over here and politely wait for a photo to present itself. I don't want to be a bother." Fortune favors the bold, Photography doubly so.]]></description>
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		<title>the man who wasn&#8217;t there</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2011/06/the-man-who-wasnt-there/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2011/06/the-man-who-wasnt-there/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[people]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new york]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=1753</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I had another shoot just last night, this time with a coworker and friend who wanted some good photos of herself. We had planned on hopping over to a park and getting some nice fun little shots in the sun. The weather, however, had other ideas, for which I'm eternally grateful.]]></description>
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		<title>will work for money</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2011/05/will-work-for-money/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2011/05/will-work-for-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 16:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[portraits]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=1740</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I've never been good at self-promotion. Chalk it up to something from my childhood or my upbringing or a million other possible reasons, but at the end of the day it amounts to the same thing: I'm about as deft at tooting my own horn as a lipless trumpeter.]]></description>
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		<title>sara&#8217;s miles</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2011/04/saras-miles/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2011/04/saras-miles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 06:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[portraits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[couchsurfing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I restarted my couchsurfing involvement after an almost two-year hiatus, and not a moment too soon. As much as I'm absolutely loving New York, my inner vagabond is starting to get antsy for the road and being around travelers helps sate the wanderlust, if only vicariously.]]></description>
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		<title>ashley</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2011/04/ashley/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2011/04/ashley/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 04:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[headshots]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've started using my ModelMayhem account more these last few weeks. I signed up over a year and a half ago, but I never really did anything with it. I had enough to keep me busy that I didn't bother exploring it much. Lately, however, I've been itching to do more and more shoots, and as I was starting to run out of people to photograph, I figured being a little more active on MM couldn't hurt.]]></description>
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		<title>taz @ 5ptz</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2011/04/taz-5ptz-2/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2011/04/taz-5ptz-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 00:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[tasayu]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=1357</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, comrade-at-arms Tasayu (previously) approached me to do some head shots and portraits over at at the "Institute of Higher Burning" and graffiti landmark 5 pointz. Never one to turn down an opportunity to check out new locations (and just explore), I was in from the word go.]]></description>
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		<title>terresa revisited</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2011/03/terresa-revisited/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2011/03/terresa-revisited/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 06:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[interiors]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got together with Terresa again on Tuesday night for a second shoot, this one a glamour / nude shoot. And just as the shoots with Joyce and Jorge Luis gave me an opportunity to run my home studio through the ropes, this session with Terresa gave me a chance to see how many other locations I could milk out of my apartment.]]></description>
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		<title>variations on a theme</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2011/03/variations-on-a-theme/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2011/03/variations-on-a-theme/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 22:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[fashion]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=1312</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I like having the different outlets because they all reflect different parts of me and it's nice to keep them compartmentalized sometimes. I already get enough of my work life spilling into my personal life which is stepping on the feet of my love life which doesn't realized it just knocked over my creative life ... I see enough of that in my day-to-day. It's nice to be able to send them to opposite corners every now and then, especially as each has a very specific role to fill.]]></description>
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		<title>confidence men</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2011/03/confidence-men/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2011/03/confidence-men/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 08:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[headshots]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=1273</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You'd likely get a variety of answers if you were to ask different photographers to name the most important trait a photographer should have, but I think we'd all agree that <i>confidence</i> is pretty high up there.]]></description>
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		<title>the acoustic duo of destruction</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2011/03/the-acoustic-duo-of-destruction/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2011/03/the-acoustic-duo-of-destruction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 06:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[musicians]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[herb & hanson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[location shooting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[not-really-trespassing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=1245</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Though I've known Herb Manila and Mike Hanson (aka Herb &#038; Hanson) for well over a decade (indeed, it was I that built their website, many moons ago), we'd never done a shoot before. We'd just never gotten around to it, I suppose. So when they suggested doing a shoot while I was in D.C. last weekend, I was completely on board.]]></description>
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		<title>joyce</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2011/02/joyce/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2011/02/joyce/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 00:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[headshots]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=1186</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When Joyce approached me to update her headshots, the short time frame made finding an affordable studio pretty much impossible so we opted for shooting in my apartment. I'd never done any shoots in the new digs, and was excited to try it out. Our living room / kitchen was big enough and had a 5' white wall on one of the long ends. Not huge, but workable.]]></description>
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		<title>fun with chuck and jules</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2011/01/fun-with-chuck-and-jules/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2011/01/fun-with-chuck-and-jules/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 06:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=1160</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Chuck and Julie are two of my favorite people around. I have friends I've known longer or friends I know on deeper levels, but when it comes to just simple, unadulterated (keyword unadult) fun, Chuck and Julie are a tough act to follow.]]></description>
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		<title>the world spins madly on</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/12/the-world-spins-madly-on/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/12/the-world-spins-madly-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 04:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=1048</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the more common signs you're getting old is when your friends start having kids.  More often than not, it's casual friends or people you haven't heard from in a while that have kids first.  An old classmate here, a distant cousin there.  But as you get older, it's your own personal friends that start to have kids.  And when it comes to personal friends, few are nearer or dearer to me than Hawk and Marimar.  They've been some of my favorite people for eight years now (I was Best Man at their wedding) and when they had twins earlier this year, it was a definite "Holy crap, we're grown ups!" moment.]]></description>
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		<title>eric + christine</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/11/eric-christine/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/11/eric-christine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[weddings]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=1027</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The very first leg of my three-week trip back to the West Coast was to visit L.A. and see a good friend of mine get married to a stellar gal. Eric and I go back a few years, and having bonded in part over the fact that we were both single guys dealing with those crazy dames, it was especially heartening to see him find a dame crazy enough to take him in.]]></description>
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		<title>stefanie</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/08/stefanie/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/08/stefanie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 04:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=937</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My first real memory of Stefanie is of acting beside her in a Federico Garcia Lorca play, The Butterfly's Evil Spell.  She played the butterfly.  I was the beetle that was hopelessly in love with her.]]></description>
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		<title>lex &amp; tina</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/08/lex-tina/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/08/lex-tina/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Had my shoot this weekend with Lex and Tina (from the last update).  We met up at their apartment in Bay Ridge and visited some of their favorite local haunts where they told me about the neighborhood as I photographed them.  Apparently a lot of mobsters live in Bay Ridge.  Who knew?]]></description>
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		<title>the internet is for scorn</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/07/the-internet-is-for-scorn/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/07/the-internet-is-for-scorn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=917</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Internet forums are interesting places.  There are few other places, either real or online, that are as effective at gathering like-minded individuals into one place to discuss everything from the brilliant to the banal.  It's like being in a college classroom with thousands of other people from all over the world, all different walks of life. One of the biggest perks about internet forums is that they're a great place to go to for free advice from experts who are there because they love to share knowledge. The downside, of course, is that on the internet, everyone's an expert.]]></description>
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		<title>the air up there</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/06/the-air-up-there/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/06/the-air-up-there/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 03:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shot an engagement party for a lovely couple on Friday night.  It was held on the rooftop of a building in the Lower Midtown/Koreatown area.  The shot above is the view from the south side of the rooftop.  You can actually see the Brooklyn Bridge, a good three miles away.  I can't begin to imagine what it'd be like to have that view waiting for you every morning.]]></description>
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		<title>ounce of prevention</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/06/ounce-of-prevention/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/06/ounce-of-prevention/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 03:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Updates have been few and far between lately on account of me still wrestling with my library of over 36,000 photos.  I'm hoping to use "this photography thing" to help supplement my main income, or at the very least bring in enough money to pay for itself.  God knows photography is no cheap endeavor, and it'd be nice if it pulled its own weight once in a while.]]></description>
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		<title>legacy</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/05/legacy/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/05/legacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 22:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[preservation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The main reason for my return to the Philippines was to pick up my grandmother, who has been living in Cebu for the last year or so.  We had sent her back from the States to escape the Winter, and illness had prevented us from bringing her home sooner.  Said picking up has hit a bit of a snag, as apparently her being in the Philippines for over a year (due to aforementioned illness) resulted in her Green Card being invalidated. ]]></description>
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		<title>neil and kayen</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/04/neil-and-kayen/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/04/neil-and-kayen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[engagement shoot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[couple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[engagement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[romance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=761</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two old and dear friends recently asked me if I could reshoot their engagement photos.  They had tragically lost them in a hard drive crash (protip: it's not enough to back up, you gotta do it often) and were hoping to have new ones for their upcoming vow renewals.]]></description>
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		<title>cliché</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/cliche/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/cliche/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 03:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[self-portraits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mirror]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reflection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the office]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=683</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don't know what it is about "shooting reflection" self-portraits that make them such a popular cliché. They're pretty much the one-man version of the "taking a picture of someone taking a picture of you" cliché that we all love so much. ]]></description>
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		<title>from the hip</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/from-the-hip/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/from-the-hip/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 03:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nyc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shooting from the hip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[subway]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=677</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I've been playing with shooting from the hip again lately. It's a bit of an art, because not only do you have to properly frame and compose the shot, but you have to keep the camera still, which is tougher than you'd think because you also have to shoot clandestinely. Well, maybe not "have to," but it's part of the fun of shooting from the hip--capturing people when they don't realize they're being captured.]]></description>
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