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No, I am not a winner … but you (an aspiring photographer) could be

I am not a winner, but an aspiring photographer who is trying to improve their game will be by spending time on this site. Lensculture and their judges, in announcing their winners - age 18 to 69 - explain in detail why they identified these photographer artists as "emerging talent"- what a bonus! Reviewing their comments and the portfolios and websites of theses photographers is like eating candy out of a barrel in a candy store -…

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August 4, 2014
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What cotton fields see at night ….

This minute and a half multimedia is a composite of motion time lapse sequences used in the documentary, Cotton Tale. Cotton Tale is a century family, farm, and industry documentary headlining the changes in cotton production in the last 60 years. The narrative vehicle for this documentary is the voice of the “last-one-standing” patriarch of a four generation farm family living in the Four Hole Swamp area of low-country South Carolina. Family members and community will…

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January 13, 2014
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Documentary … “Wanted Alive! Creative Free Time”

 Documentarian and Maestro Burt Westdorp works his magic at the (Mac) keyboard Twenty or more  individuals experienced a virtual  "creative free time"  this past week all week at the Duke University Center for Documentary Studies specialty workshop - "Digging In".  A talented faculty of documentary luminaries descended from the four corners of the U.S. mainland and Canada to inspire, conjole, and lead aspirants who took a week out of their lives to raise their game.  The leadership for…

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August 4, 2013