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		<title>A Picture of Dorian Gray-the preface</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tony Bridge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kia ora tatou: I have always been a fan of Oscar Wilde. In spite of his peculiar system of morality, he always lived his life on the square and took a particularly idiosyncratic route. In spite of being at odds with the Victorian ethos, his genius shone through. it has been many years since I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photographic Journeys&#8230;allowing the man in the Technicolour Dreamcoat</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 05:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Bridge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately my journeys and the photographs I make have begun to overlap. The pictures inform my journey, the journey informs my images.  And as will happen when we begin to look in the rear-view mirror, a trend will emerge. Sometimes this will be a radiant butterfly or a long winding road, mapped perfectly. Occasionally however, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Voice From the Past- Letters to a Young Poet</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Bridge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kia ora tatou: It seems appropriate to begin the New Year with this. A long time ago, while I was studying German at Canterbury University, we were required to study the Austrian poet, Rainer Maria Rilke. I confess I really didn&#8217;t give him the attention he deserved. I was more interested in romance and being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blowing hot air- of Truth and Photography, of castles and camels</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 04:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Bridge</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[throwing in a handgrenade or two..]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Not surprisingly many of the canonical images of early war photography turn out to have been staged, or to have had their subjects tampered with. -          Susan Sontag Kia ora tatou: A few days ago, on  my Facebook fan page,  where I put up all the stuff which really doesn’t need a full post,  I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doing Dubai-looking for Pennywise.</title>
		<link>http://www.thistonybridge.com/2011/11/20/doing-dubai-with-a-nex-7-part-1-looking-for-pennywise</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 00:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Bridge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m an alien, I&#8217;m a legal alien I&#8217;m an Englishman in New York I&#8217;m an alien, I&#8217;m a legal alien I&#8217;m an Englishman in New York Sting Dubai is possibly the most surreal place I have ever visited. Being my first experience of it meant that I was looking at it with fresh eyes, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On photography-a view of the moon</title>
		<link>http://www.thistonybridge.com/2011/11/18/on-photography-a-view-of-the-moon</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 05:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Bridge</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The making of an image]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. Albert Einstein It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all. Edward de Bono I have been thinking… I know a number of you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Seeing&#8230;from Labels to Significance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 05:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Bridge</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The making of an image]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kia ora tatou: I have been thinking. Last weekend  I was out with a couple of good friends, making photographs. We were bouncing our way along an icy track when an image, an arrangement of relationships, of time and space, caught my attention and asked me to make it (that is the way it happens, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emerging from the chrysalis-developing a portrait</title>
		<link>http://www.thistonybridge.com/2011/08/12/emerging-from-the-chrysalis-developing-a-portrait</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 02:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Bridge</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Story Posts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So many people dislike themselves so thoroughly that they never see any reproduction of themselves that suits. None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer. &#8211; Imogen Cunningham A portrait! What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound. &#8211; Charles Baudelaire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On photographic  porn…and does it really matter?</title>
		<link>http://www.thistonybridge.com/2011/08/01/on-photographic-porn%e2%80%a6and-does-it-really-matter</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 22:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Bridge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Disclaimer: the opinions expressed in this article are not necessarily those of the writer. But they might be&#8230; To apply HDR processing to a photograph is like putting on makeup. It’s very easy to go too far, to put on too much. ~the BlorkBlog There are three possible parts to a date, of which at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photography-memory by omission</title>
		<link>http://www.thistonybridge.com/2011/07/15/photography-a-treasure-cabinet-of-memories</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 01:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Bridge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a very good memory, but it&#8217;s short. Thank god for photography. - John E. Burkowski There is one other quality specific to the medium: its unique relationship with reality, a relationship which has little to do with &#8216;truth&#8217;, visual or otherwise, but everything to do with the emotional charge generated by the photograph&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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