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  • on March 31, 2006
    Hi! You are too kind! It was lot of fun and a great contest. Made me think of that great work by Aldous Huxley 'Cleansing the Doors of Perception.' Dave (Caliban)
  • epitaph-macabre on March 16, 2006
    i like your page
  • Being Karen on March 15, 2006
    Eric -- thanks kindly for your compliments. I use a Nikon D50 dSLR mostly. My best advice is to get a camera that has the most manual control can find -- manual shutter speed, manual focus, etc. Doesn't matter if it's digital or film (although they both have advantages and disadvantages i.e. with digital you can see the image right away and discard it if you don't like, but you'll never get quite the same 'fee' as with a film camera (although they are getting better) and all the development tricks happen post production, so you need to be verse in photoshop to manipulate your images. With film, you have almost unlimited degrees of artistic control with the settings of the camera, and the final product can't be mimicked with digital, but you don't get to see your image right away to know if it's a flub or not, and you have to have a darkroom to have any sort of post-production control over your images).

    The best advice I can give you, aside from all my inane babbling about the pros and cons of dig. and film, is to grab any camera and start practicing. Start looking at things as if you would frame them -- details, moments, aspects of design, emotions -- opportunities are endless.

    And love it!

    cheers
  • Eric Nunnally on February 22, 2006
    Karen,

    I was looking at some of your pics posted on your homepage and wondered if you could give me some photography advice. I love the crispness of the shots as well as your eye. What kind of camera(s) do you use? Film? Best advice?
  • No-oneFromHome on October 30, 2005
    I just came by to look at some of your poetry and saw dreams as one of your favorite songs and have to agree it is one of mine too... what a voice that girl has! Bye bye x
  • rebeka on July 1, 2005
    happy canada day ...yay!
  • onerios13 on April 28, 2005
    NEIL IS GOD!!! Sandman, bayyybeee!

    (also long live 'Good Omens'!)
  • editorinchimp on April 12, 2005
    is sarah slean's 'california' anything like joni's?
  • polly in purgatory on January 31, 2005
    yay a fellow canadian
    im adding you to my favorites cause of your most recent poem.
    love and cupcakes <3
  • PolkaDot on December 31, 2004
    awesome page dude. I like your quotes, David Bowie is a self proclaimed genius. Take care.
  • SomnusLupus on December 21, 2004
    ginsberg and gaiman?

    amen.

    and i love neverwhere.
  • apathtcsympthy on October 29, 2004
    thank yoo so much for thinking so highly of my poem! the thoughts and applaud are really appreciated!
  • catz on October 28, 2004
    A very impressive page, May. And your poetry... it's wonderfully written. So far I've enjoyed it very much. You're a very good writer in my opinion

    Dee
  • Fax Celestis on September 29, 2004
    May,

    You seem like a really interesting person (acording to the poems of yours I've seen, as well as the fact that I keep finding your comments on poems I really like).

    We should talk.

    Drop me an email. shasta@shireroth.org ...I'd like help with my next contest ("Make Me Want To Read Your Poetry II" (same rules, new entries)), and I think you'd be perfect for the job.

    Besides, I'd like to talk to you.

    ==Fax
  • Saynt305 on September 21, 2004
    thezedgallery.com/bb
    thezedgallery.com

    hope to see you around.
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