I recently had a discussion with a university photography teacher. He told me about one of the biggest problems he has with his students is that they start off without enough support for their cameras. Then, when they finally realize that they need tripods, end up spending way too much because they make the wrong purchase decision. Here is how he summed up the experience of buying tripods.
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I should be on Adizar doing a massive search for my ideal job, but before I can crack on with that I have to get on with all my distractions and get them out of the way.
I've had my 15 minutes or so on Facebook, checking out other people's banal status updates, I've had a sconce over the BBC News website and gotten thoroughly depressed at the state of the world and now I'm looking at Kerrang and Midnight Mixtape to get a music news fix that might perk me up....
Read more »I have recently been struggling to pay off my electric bill, it just seems to be getting higher and higher and I'm not sure why.
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Unfortunately this year it has fallen on my shoulders to organize the office Christmas party, since the woman who normally does it is away on maternity leave.
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I've been settling in nicely in my new flat, but I'm severely lacking on storage so I've ordered a load of cabinets and storage bits and bobs from Ikea which will be delivered this afternoon.
That leaves me the weekend to put them together and sort it all out, but I'm less than useless at this sort of thing, my boy best friend from my childhood told me to 'man up' - a phrase I do not approve of particularly - and get DIYing. ...
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