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		<title>Now where&#8217;d I put that point&#8217;n&#8217;shoot?</title>
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I think I&#8217;m slowly coming to the conclusion that perhaps, photographically speaking, I&#8217;m going through a &#8220;down&#8221; period.
(Yeah, ok, so it takes time for these things to filter through my befuddled brain but I get there eventually&#8230; sometimes).
Whatever happened to the good old days, all of a couple of months back, when I could simply [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wow, I actually remembered!</title>
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So miffed were we with the disastrous night shots of the other day (er&#8230; evening) that mate and I decided to have another bash at it. And this time we actually remembered to bring tripods! Wonders will never cease.
All well and good &#8216;cept (and I can&#8217;t speak for mate here cos I ain&#8217;t seen any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revitalised Bear sessions (or should that be beer sessions?)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
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As regular visitors here will know, I tend to shoot quite a lot of pics at The Bear pub in Bedford. For that matter, so does my mate&#8230; who happens to work there. Which partly accounts for the reason why we seem to have loads of damn shots of the place. So many in fact [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bedford is closing down!</title>
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Global economic crisis; recession; businesses going bankrupt, closing down, or otherwise ceasing to trade. With repercussions filtering down to the small trader and the man in the street.
Dire times indeed!
But, it always having been in my nature to look for the silver lining, what a super opportunity for a sort of photographic social documentary!
Hence, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An object lesson</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
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Having made a bit of a meal, as far as blogging&#8217;s concerned, out of last Wednesday&#8217;s little adventure and with particular emphasis on the climax to the adventure (the disastrous episode with the evening/night shots), I thought I&#8217;d inflict even further misery upon myself by revisiting the offending pics before binning them for good.
Yeah, I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unmitigated stupidity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here we are then. End of day. Me and mate. In The Bear. His shift about to end. An hour or so to kill.
&#8220;So&#8221;, sez I, &#8220;we up for some photos then?&#8221; What with him not having done anything at all photowise during the day and me only having grabbed a mere couple of shots [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Still Wednesday!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Onward then to what became the third part of Wednesday&#8217;s photo epic. And this is where it all started to go downhill.
Finally reaching Bedford&#8217;s town centre once more the camera gets stowed away, and once again I find myself firmly ensconced in the familiar surroundings of The Bear.
Now regular visitors to this little blog of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another part of the day of parts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
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So, following on from my last post, there was I traipsing around Kempston beginning to hear the call of The Bear, and lunch.
Feet pointing in the direction of Bedford I packed away the camera well satisfied with the pics I&#8217;d taken, and no intention of doing anything else photo-related. Well, not until after lunch and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A day of parts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
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Photowise Wednesday was definitely a day of parts. Quite distinct and separate parts, practically sufficient to qualify as completely different sessions. Good parts. More good parts. And&#8230; um&#8230; &#8220;other&#8221; parts.
So I decided to indulge myself and blog about each of the significant parts separately.
The day kicked off mid-morning with a little session I&#8217;ve had in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dismal day</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wandered into town on a bill-paying expedition&#8230; an exercise not particularly designed to put me in a positive frame of mind right from the start.
Raining constantly so toyed with the idea of grabbing some daytime &#8220;rainy day in the town centre&#8221; shots to complement the evening ones of last week.
But parting with lumps of money [...]]]></description>
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