This was a move that I promised quite awhile ago.  I’ve been so short on time lately that I just couldn’t dedicate an unknown amount of time to it.  Well, I had absolutely nothing to do today so I finally moved The Photo Playground to http://thephotoplayground.com.  I think that I updated the database and...
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Greetings readers. Recently we’ve been thinking that we should open the blog a bit more to you, our readers.  There are so many people doing incredible things with photography that we would like to present some of them here on The Photo Playground.  Using our new flikr pool, readers can now add photos of...
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Greetings readers.  I’ve been ultra busy lately and just haven’t had a ton of time to maintain my web life.  I did have a few hours to spare a few weeks ago though.  So, I set up a 1000 markets store.  I only five prints for sale right now and they are reasonably priced. ...
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Greetings readers.  According to our statistics 19% of you are currently using Internet Explorer 6.0.  This was very surprising and a little troubling.  In 2001 when IE6 was released it really wasn’t a bad browser, but 8 years later and that is just no longer the case.  IE6 is obsolete and there are much...
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Yesterday was one of the best camera buying days ever.  I bought 11 cameras of variable quality for $5.77.  I hit up two thrift stores in the area, both of them St. Vincent DePaul Thrift Stores.  The first St. Vinnie’s had a “1/2 off everything in the store” sale.  They had a good number...
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Since I began this site two and half months ago I have been astonished by the number of readers and visitors who have found it and continue to come back for more (nearly 15,000 hits since March 2!). To all of my regulars thank you very very much. I’m glad that I’m able to...
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Today’s review is by a very good friend of mine, MC2 William (Benny) Weinert. Benny and my friendship dates back to the latter months of 2001. We lived a few doors down from each other in the dorms at Northern Michigan University. We were arm chair philosophers together, we shot the shit about photography,...
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Today was the day, Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day.  I’ve been getting geared up for today for a couple weeks.  The weather here in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan was dreary, damp, and chilly.  The sun rarely poked through thick gray clouds and it rained and drizzled for most of the day.  Definitely not the...
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Greetings gentle readers. Over the next few days I will be making some changes to this blog. The current theme that I am using has become too limited in its range of functions so I’m forcing myself to scrap it and install another one. I rewrote some of the CSS and php for this...
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Photo by Boris Kafka, all rights reserved As photographers it’s imperative that we understand and exercise our rights appropriately.  In the age of terror, which the US government persistently tells us we live in, it is becoming more and more common for photographers to be met with hostility, harassment, and sometimes physical intervention while...
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