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I'm sitting here at Oolong enjoying the last of my tea after finishing my analysis project, and thinking about new ideas for photos. Particularly, about an idea for a project I've been bouncing around in my skull for some weeks now. It's a photojournalism idea that's slowly evolved in complexity since it first popped into my head with the creation of my deviation, Allahu Akbar: :thumb67978470: It centers on the various religions that inhabit our fairly diverse city of Calgary, Alberta. We have Orthodox Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Catholics of every variation and myriad other Christian derivatives. We have Buddhist monks, we have a few ascetics,

Of late, I have been doing a significant amount of "playing" with my new D200, and have shot well over a couple thousand images. I know this isn't much, but it's more than I've ever shot in that short of a period before. I have reached the point where I feel I don't think I can teach myself too much more about photography and the camera. Of course, by shooting and shooting and shooting, I am still learning more things every day, but I'm getting frustrated by the way some of my images turn out. My colors never seem quite as sharp or fully defined, my focus is always that c-hair off, the composition is good, but not great. Call it a case of my