How to Achieve Your New Year’s Resolutions.

“The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.”
                                                                             Melody Beattie

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5 New Year's Resolutions to Improve Your Photography.

“A New Year’s resolution - a promise that you make to yourself to start doing something good or stop doing something bad on the first day of the year”

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My favorite photographs of 2015 on photohacks.blogspot.com.

                                 A winter fairy tale.

At the end of the year you might want to return to your photo gallery to select your favorite photographs.
Here’s my top 12 of the year. I hope you’ll enjoy them with me.

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6 Types of Creative Blocks and How to Overcome Them.

“Most artists have experienced creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time.”  Lukas Foss

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Cliché in Photography, or Are No Photographs New?

The small and very beautiful Czech town Český Krumlov was first mentioned in documents in 1253 and was included in 1992 on a UNESCO's List of World Cultural and Natural Heritage.
There are several meanings of the word “to shoot”, including: “to fire a bullet from a gun/to discharge an arrow from a bow”, “to take a photograph”…
 So, I was standing at the embrasure of the Český Krumlov fortress, ready to shoot (to take photos), thinking about the defenders of the fortress who were ready to shoot (to fire bullets from the guns or to discharge arrows from the bows?) many-many years ago.
I know that landmarks are in the list of clichés. I know that there are many hundred thousand photographs of Český Krumlov. I’m not sure that there’s no photograph which looks alike, but it was my idea, my view, I didn’t see the same photograph before…I had a right to respond to this ancient fascination, hadn’t I? And everybody has the same right, even if we’ll receive the next photograph which someone calls a cliché.

“The cliché comes not in what you shoot but in how you shoot it.”
(David duChemin)

So let's define what we mean by “cliché”:

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Self-portrait = Selfie?

Prague. Vitkov park. Self-portrait.

The ancients, the Old masters and modern artists have looked to self-portraiture to discover new aspects of their art form, and to find an answer to the question “What am I like?” Sometimes the art works reveal the artist’s true inner self, sometimes they show the self as an imaginary construct.

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How to Create a Photo Essay: Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Words?

“A picture shows me at a glance what it takes dozens of pages of a book to expound.” (Ivan Turgenev).  

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5 Tips for the Golden Hour Photography.

“Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.” (Horace Mann)

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5 Tips for the Blue Hour Photography.

What is the blue hour? It is the peculiar hour before dawn or after sunset, a bit mysterious and beautiful period.

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Improve Your Photography by Leaving Your Comfort Zone.

The comfort zone :)

Maybe you’ve heard about necessity to leave your comfort zone. Leaving the comfort zone means doing something you are not comfortable with.
And what is the comfort zone?

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5 Tips to Help Your Photographs to Tell a Story (Part 2).

Tossa de Mar at night

We already know 5 things to think about when we’re taking photos if we want to tell a story.

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5 Tips to Help Your Photographs to Tell a Story (Part 1).

"Looking through the window"

A photographer takes his/her viewers on a journey, leaving them feeling inspired and motivated.

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7 Photography Tips to Capture Your Furry Friends’ Character.

“Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to”. (Alfred A. Montapert)

So often we have a cat/a dog/a bird/a rabbit or someone else living with us. They are not only a part of our lives, they are almost the members of our families. That’s why you might want to have your pets’ photographs.

Posing animals during photographing is near to impossible, unless you have very well trained pets. There are other things you can do to get the photos you want.

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