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I don't care what anyone says, Mondays are always a drag. Thank the stars up above for coffee, almonds, and dreamy photos of girls on mountains. Only 2 more days till my birthday and a secret escape to the Tennessee mountains.

Countdown begins... NOW!

P.S. *** Check out the new photo review on THEDROPP of Katya Tyapkina.

{Yashica A. Medium format. Kodak Professional ISO 160 & Canon ae1. 35mm Film. Ektar 100}

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Sundays are always so bittersweet. I hate saying goodbye to weekends... among other things.

{Yashica A. Medium Format. Kodak Professional ISO 160 film}

SPONSOR SWAP

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Thank u very little needs to give more! That's why I want to do a sponsor swap.
Here's how it works: You give me your site banner and I will give you mine. Then we post the banners on the main page of our sites. Yep. It's that easy! Wait wait wait... It gets better. This will cost us NOTHING! That's right folks - FREE :) Lets work together and create more cross traffic between cool creative thinkers on the internetzzz and then DOMINATE THE WORLD.

If you are into this idea Email me {colienrp@yahoo.com} your banner and a link to your site/blog/tumblr/whathaveyou and lets start this sweet union.

P.S. I will only be able to swap up to 10 new sponsors at the moment. So act fast!!!

P.S.S. That is my sweeet banner up there. It would look great in your margin (that's what she said).

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I just finished the last batch of images from my trip to Portland. I have to say - I really dragged my feet on scanning and posting them. Somehow I felt that the moment I was through working on these photos would be the moment the experience was really over for me.... I haven't experienced a trip like that since my 3 month stint in Europe. Either way, it was an overdue escape and a surprising re-fresh in attitude towards photography, life, and everything else...

I found this quote last night, by a photographer whose work I really admire.

"The interaction is more important than the photos. Basically, I want to be around brilliant minds. And they let me take their picture." Autumn de Wilde.

So much of my experience in Portland, as well as how it made me feel about my photos can be summed up in that line. Sure I considered myself damn lucky to be out in the great Northwest, breathing in that dense mountain air, but none of it would have meant nearly as much as it did if it weren't for the creative minds I got to be around - graciously shedding mass quantities of inspiration all over me.

{Canon ae1. Ektar 100 film}

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