I receive all kinds of email newsletters, as I’m sure you do. Some I give a quick glance over and others I almost ignore. Yesterday I discovered a website I have been ignoring. For some reason the description of their photo challenge theme for January caught my eye. The Photographer’s Life is about selling an online course, but there’s a lot there for anyone who wants to spend time looking. Loads of tips on how to take better photos, if you’re interested, but I was particularly inspired by the photos I viewed from the hall of fame.
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I have been a bit neglectful not to point out the excellent blogs right here on b5media.com that are brimming over with resources for your visual journals. Stamping Mad by Katelyn Thomas has excellent ideas for backgrounds & many other stamping related ideas. Layers Upon Layers by Cyndi Lavin, which I may have mentioned before, has unlimited resources for visual journal keepers. Artist Hideout by William Lehman should inspire you to create art. Digital Photography School will help you with any digital images you create. Don’t overlook The Mad Cropper, Junk Creation, Hankering for Yarn, Tangled Thread and even Quilting …read more