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Ethics: Photograph or Photo Illustration?
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This morning, I photographed a teacher who had recently won a national mentorship award. Due to time constraints, I had to perform my duties during the interview, which was held in the school cafeteria. There, I set up my lighting kit, a Speedlite attached to a lightstand with an umbrella. In addition to standard headshots (safety shots), I wanted to make effective use of the surroundings. I noticed a round table behind her that I could use, if only I had some students. With the assistance of her colleagues, we located some willing students in the school library. I placed...

Beginnings of Photography
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The First, the name. We owe the name "Photography" to Sir John Herschel, who first used the term in 1839, the year the photographic process became public. (*1) The word is derived from the Greek words for light and writing. Before mentioning the stages that led to the development of photography, there is one amazing, quite uncanny prediction made by a man called de la Roche (1729- 1774) in a work called Giphantie. In this imaginary tale, it was possible to capture images from nature, on a canvas which had been coated with a sticky. This surface, so the tale...

HowTo Make a Good Seapix
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While there are quite a few tips and tricks I can suggest, these are the six "cardinal" rules that I think every underwater photographer should know. Even though there are nine tips in all, these six are undoubtedly the most important. Tip 1. Spend, Spend, Spend. This is one of those pearls of wisdom that is easily dispensed but hard to follow. If you are in the market for an underwater camera system, and have a serious interest in photography, max out your credit card. The old joke about "always live within your means,...

Russian walrus hunting: history of crisis in the 19th century
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The interest towards the walrus studies in academic circles all over the world be­came obvious quite recently. Numerous biological and historical publications have appeared lately. The aim of this paper is to describe the changing role of the walrus hunting in the local economy of the Russian North area. The Russian walrus hunting in the North Atlantic Arctic started in the early 16th century and had more than a three hundred years history. We focused on the final stage of this process at the first half of the 19th century as which was the time of deep crisis of the...

Of Fly Rods & Steelhead
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I pity the man that comes easy to the sport of steelheading. This is the guy we’ve all heard about, the one that buys a fiberglass fly rod and on the first day, before he has figured out how to use it, lands a trophy steelhead of over twenty pounds. On one hand one might think that the poor fellow would be hooked for life, but really, where does he have to go after a fish like that? Imagine if he caught that fish on a dry fly! The lost soul may as well hang up his chunk of fiberglass...

The Traveling Sedge
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When asked what their favorite time to fish, most hardcore B.C. still water fly fisher’s agree that late June and caddis fly hatches are at the top of the list. This time of year can bring some of the biggest trout to the top to feed and create some of the most exciting displays of surface takes that you may ever encounter. Traveling sedges are also not your every day run of the mill caddis flies. No sir, these are the biggest of the big in the caddis fly world. Most travelers average around one inch long with many nearing...

A Thought on the Fraser
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The Fraser river is the largest river in British Columbia, winding its way from Mount Robson to the Strait of Georgia, a length of over 850 miles. This magnificent river begins as a glacial fed stream, tumbling northwest towards Prince George, barely avoiding a passage to the Arctic watershed along the way, when it sweeps southerly to begin its tumultuous downhill journey to the Pacific. It flows through several biogeoclimatic zones and past interesting and unique ecosystems; from open alpine to spruce stands, through the dry ponderosa pine bunchgrass zone of the interior plateau and through coastal western hemlock laden...

Which Came First; The Sturgeon or the Egg?
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My rod twitched slightly, and then I could feel the fish gently pick up the bait. I waited for the fish to take the bait, and then set the hook. Some minor headshakes were felt and then slack line. Here it comes, it’s going to jump. The huge twelve and a half foot fish leaped straight out of the water all the way to its dorsal fin and rolled over like a humpback whale. The waves from the landing lapped at the side of the boat. After a sweaty, see-saw battle, we surfed the great fish to shore and pulled...

Kokanee On The Fly
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When most people think of flyfishing locally or in the Interior - they generally think of Cutthroat, Rainbows or Brook Trout. In this article I'm going to bring to your attention another interesting fishery - Kokanee on the fly. These beautiful landlocked descendants of the Sockeye Salmon can make for one of the most challenging and exciting fisheries that you can experience. The food source that makes this fishery happen is the family "Chironomidae" or in layman's terms chironomids. Though the main food source in the kokanee's life cycle is plankton the other source which makes them vulnerable to the...

Steelhead 101
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The tell tale tug of a steelie is the drug that keeps us up to our armpits in ice water, dreading going back to the warmth of the daily grind. Steelhead are only fish but they have the mystic power to take over one’s mind, soul and time. The addiction can be overwhelming. The only way to suppress it is with a hard fought slab of silver steelhead on the fly, the very notion conjures up romance and prestige - the pinnacle of west coast fly fishing. Many would be steelhead fly fishers become utterly lost in the maze of...

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