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		<title>A Picture of Dorian Gray-the preface</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.thistonybridge.com/2012/01/26/a-picture-of-dorian-gray-the-preface</link>
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		<title>My Adobe Diet-feedback.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, Mr Adobe, you win. I cannot live without you. There. It is out in the open. Now let me explain. Not long before Christmas, infuriated by the way in which Adobe were changing their pricing model to make even more money, and cutting out all those legacy users with CS3 and CS4, I began [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thistonybridge.com/2012/01/25/my-adobe-diet-feedback</link>
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		<title>PSNZ’s Most Wanted: Your images</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kia ora tatou: As some of you  know, I am currently the chairperson of the PSNZ Judging Accreditation Panel. The panel is hoping to upgrade the current system and streamline the existing processes. I will be travelling to The National Convention in Invercargill in April this year, where I will be running a session, explaining [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thistonybridge.com/2012/01/16/psnz%e2%80%99s-most-wanted-your-images</link>
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		<title>Shipping News Vol. 234- the camera fetishist edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it&#8217;s already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer. - Eve Arnold &#8220;I want to be the tripod, the light meter, the motor drive.&#8221; —Eve Arnold on using the simplest equipment Kia ora [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thistonybridge.com/2012/01/16/shipping-news-vol-234-the-camera-fetishist-edition</link>
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		<title>Shipping news- the techy expurgated version (again)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kia ora tatou: Over Christmas, as we holidayed, I took advantage of a new technology offered by Amazon, and offered my own bookshop (well, a virtual one). These days, it seems ‘real’ bookshops are vanishing fast. There are still the chain-store variety (should that be chainsaw), which offer container-loads of remaindered crap. But real bookshops, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thistonybridge.com/2012/01/06/shipping-news-the-techy-expurgated-version-again</link>
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		<title>Photographic Journeys&#8230;allowing the man in the Technicolour Dreamcoat</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.thistonybridge.com/2012/01/05/photographic-journeys-allowing-the-man-in-the-technicolour-dreamcoat</link>
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		<title>Voice From the Past- Letters to a Young Poet</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.thistonybridge.com/2012/01/01/voice-from-the-past-letters-to-a-young-poet</link>
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		<title>Shoutout- the Xmas edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kia ora tatou: “I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses.” It is that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thistonybridge.com/2011/12/23/shoutout-the-xmas-edition</link>
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		<title>Wishlist: a letter to Santa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Red, Portly and Bearded one: I know, I know. I only write to you once a year, but I know you and the elves are busy, so I don’t want to impose. Actually I wasn’t sure you really existed, but after seeing the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy sharing a bottle of Moet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thistonybridge.com/2011/12/16/3328</link>
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		<title>Shoutout Vol 23x</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like photographers—you don’t ask questions. - Ronald Reagan Kia ora tatou: Teaching in Christchurch. After a year of being out of teaching photography in Christchurch, after UC shut down their continuing Education programme, I have been looking for a place to teach. Many of the places I might have used were damaged or too [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thistonybridge.com/2011/12/16/shoutout-vol-23x</link>
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