“You get what you pay for”, says Amazon It’s fairly common knowledge in photographic circles that when it come to lenses you get what you pay for. When I first bought my Fuji Finepix E900 I really couldn’t justify the expense of buying Fuji’s custom Wide [WL-FXE01] and Telephoto [TL-FXE01] Conversion lenses. They’re not cheap [...]
Turkish culture is very rich dating back to the days when nomads from Mongolia were united under the Genghis Khan, and later his son Khubilai Khan captured most of the ‘known world’, from Vienna to Peking. In order to administer this vast empire the Turkic speaking people employed and adopted Arab scholars, who in turn [...]
A New Home For Yusuf, Perhaps? According to Rich Schefren the reason retailers install security devices isn’t to prevent people from shop lifting in their stores. Rather it is to persuade them that it’s far easier to steal from the shop next door. The United Kingdom possesses more CCTV cameras per square mile than any [...]
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Stephen Jeremy Maxwell Bray lives with his wife Irem, and daughter Amazon at Amos, Turunc near Marmaris, Turkey... . he is currently writing a series of three books about photography for publication on Amazon Kindle. The first of these 'Photography and Psychoanalysis' was published on May 10th, 2013.
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