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		<title>Releasing Rigidity &#8211; Play and Transformation with Multi-colored Rose &#8211; Picture to Ponder &#8211; v7-43</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 02:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Change in Perspective]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The focus of this week&#8217;s Picture to Ponder is &#8220;Play&#8221; and the permission we do, or don&#8217;t, give ourselves to &#8220;freely&#8221; play. The photographs themselves are a result of my following through on taking a photo of whatever catches my eye. This week&#8217;s feature is one rose, not artificial, in a glass vase on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shadows and Clouds &#8211; Darkness or Brightness &#8211; Picture to Ponder &#8211; v7-issue 40</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 03:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheila Finkelstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Change in Perspective]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clouds]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In last week&#8217;s issue of Picture to Ponder, we addressed &#8220;light and shadows.&#8221; For this week, I am once again pulled in by shadows, contrasted with bright, somewhat early, morning light. Today&#8217;s two photographs were taken with my iPhone camera and then enhanced using various &#8220;effects&#8221; in the FX Photo Studio application. The similarity/repetition in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shifts in Perception &#8211; Finding the Beauty &#8211; Flowering Kale in Picture to Ponder v7-34</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 23:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheila Finkelstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Change in Perspective]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photographing food was our assignment this past week in The Photo Profits Secret online course in which I&#8217;ve been participating. As usual, I found myself drawn into the centers, and the art, rather than whole of individual and groups of fruits and/or vegetables. I invite you to fully experience and be with each of today&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mystery Photos from Through and From The Lens Facebook Fan Page &#8211; Picture to Ponder &#8211; v7-issue 6</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 21:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheila Finkelstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Change in Perspective]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week a few Facebook fans and I have been having fun on my new Fan Page. I started the page posting a mystery photo almost daily, giving the answer the next day. For the past several days, I&#8217;ve been posting individual views of one series of photos taken in early afternoon four years ago. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smiles from a Hubcap and Iron Poles &#8211; Picture to Ponder &#8211; v6 &#8211; issue 25</title>
		<link>http://photographyandtransformation.com/smiles-from-a-hubcap-and-iron-poles-picture-to-ponder-v6-issue-25/2010/06/24</link>
		<comments>http://photographyandtransformation.com/smiles-from-a-hubcap-and-iron-poles-picture-to-ponder-v6-issue-25/2010/06/24#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheila Finkelstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creativity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While searching for today&#8217;s photos I felt an immediate smile break out as my eye quickly caught the photo below. I saw a grinning face winking. I decided to go for the humor, hoping you see it also. Finding play and humor is part of what I am currently working on as I narrow down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Year-end and New Year&#8217;s Reflections  from Night Crown Heron and Dancing Children &#8211; Picture to Ponder &#8211; v5-48</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheila Finkelstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Cay Wetlands]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m taking a quick break from family time to wish you a Joyful, Healthy, Peaceful Prosperous New Year. The Night Crown Heron seems to be pondering? Reflecting? Have you taken the time to reflect and acknowledge your accomplishments in 2010? Will you to be stepping lightly into 2010 or taking a leap? And, in celebration [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Perspectives Inspired by a Red Onion and Garlic &#8211; Picture to Ponder &#8211; Vol. 5 &#8211; Issue 26</title>
		<link>http://photographyandtransformation.com/new-perspectives-inspired-by-a-red-onion-and-garlic-picture-to-ponder-vol-5-issue-26/2009/07/23</link>
		<comments>http://photographyandtransformation.com/new-perspectives-inspired-by-a-red-onion-and-garlic-picture-to-ponder-vol-5-issue-26/2009/07/23#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheila Finkelstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inspirational Photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Onion Story]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may be wondering, &#8220;Why onion photos again?&#8221; I had intended to go back to birds, or other nature photos, for this issue, and then these photographs kept popping out whenever I opened my photo files. A few weeks ago, for the last session of the June Through and From the Lens course, I purchased [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunshine on Florida Smiling Scarecrow</title>
		<link>http://photographyandtransformation.com/sunshine-on-florida-smiling-scarecrow/2008/10/27</link>
		<comments>http://photographyandtransformation.com/sunshine-on-florida-smiling-scarecrow/2008/10/27#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheila Finkelstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creativity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In last week&#8217;s Picture to Ponder, I featured a scarecrow on a balcony in Sedona, AZ. Back home in Boynton Beach, FL, on a neighborhood walk, one evening, I saw this scarecrow happily placed in the middle of 3 palms. I couldn&#8217;t resist coming back with my camera, the next time we had sun. Check [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smiling on a Balcony in  Sedona, AZ &#8211; Picture to Ponder &#8211; Vol 4 &#8211; Issue 39</title>
		<link>http://photographyandtransformation.com/smiling-on-a-balcony-in-sedona-az-picture-to-ponder-vol-4-issue-39/2008/10/21</link>
		<comments>http://photographyandtransformation.com/smiling-on-a-balcony-in-sedona-az-picture-to-ponder-vol-4-issue-39/2008/10/21#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheila Finkelstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Clouds]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s Picture to Ponder Photos a scarecrow on the balcony of a home in an elite residential neighborhood in Sedona, AZ, plus cloud reflections in an upper story window in the same home The Story No big story today. I was once again searching through my Arizona photos for possibly one last photo from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Humor and Abstraction &#8211; Accidental Art from an Orange</title>
		<link>http://photographyandtransformation.com/humor-and-abstraction-accidental-art-from-an-orange/2008/09/19</link>
		<comments>http://photographyandtransformation.com/humor-and-abstraction-accidental-art-from-an-orange/2008/09/19#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheila Finkelstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fruit]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lady in the top photo with a very wide collar and a &#8220;blowfish&#8221; in the lower photo.  Neither was posed as such. The top photo was a random arrangement of art peels and the lower &#8220;simply&#8221; a half orange.  I was mainly interested in playing with the contrasts of the ceramic dish as background. [...]]]></description>
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