Highest Five

One beautiful summer morning I was upsetting every lazy bone in my body by jogging.  “WTF is this?” they all seemed to cry out as I hit the nature trails in Whistler, British Columbia.  Aside from year round skiers, snowboarders, and mountain bikers, Whistler shares its forests and mountains with another wild creature:  bears.  So on this particular morning when I heard a woman’s scream coming from behind me, which was followed by a large brown furry animal rustling in the bushes I was running past, my body was instantly flooded with those wonderful fight or flight chemicals, while my shorts were filled with a variety of other chemicals.

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The Internet provides a wide range of online learning options, whether it’s a language, an instrument or even completing a college degree. After having taken some photography classes in university, I was a wee bit skeptical about how much one would learn about photography in front of a computer. Yet leaping strides in technology have made it easier than ever to communicate and share quality images over the Internet and this has made an enormous difference in the quality of online photography courses. You can take courses specific to your camera and learn alongside students from all over the world. The main thing is to marry the learning with constant practice.

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