Ivan Makarov Blog

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Category: Links Worth a Click

New Blogs from Lenswork’s Brooks Jensen

While downloading the latest podcasts from Brooks Jensen, the publisher of my favorite photography related magazine Lenswork, I discovered that he recently started new photography related blogs, thus jumping in with both feet into the world of blogging. Up to this point Brooks produced free podcasts on creativity  and on photography as an art medium [...]

Walk4Hearing Silent Auction

One of my contacts on Twitter and Flickr Christopher Stern is raising money for a great organization, Hearing Loss Association of America. Christopher wrote to me that he has been hearing impaired all his  life and wore hearing aids until he experienced additional loss of hearing in February 2005.  After numerous hearing tests, Christopher was [...]

Links Roundup

To wrap up a week and to offer you some weekend reading, here are few links that I found interesting this week. Tips on Photographing Children – Rich Legg shares some tips from his extensive experience of working with children. As a parent, I know it’s one of the hardest types of photography. How to [...]

My Twitter Address

After long resistance, I finally joined Twitter and Friendfeed. Please follow my feeds where I share thoughts on photography, hockey and whatever else comes to my mind. If you’re my blog reader and you have an account with either of those services, please leave a link to your feed in the comments – I would [...]

Links to Boost Your Creativity

If you need a little boost to your creativity, here are few links that may help. – Chase Jarvis shares 22 ideas of how to shake your tree. Some of the ideas could easily apply to other areas in life; – An instant classic – Zach Arias video – if you haven’t seen it yet, [...]

Links Roundup

Hope you all had a good weekend. Before mine is over, here are few links worth a click. – One of my favorite artists, publishers and podcasters, Brooks Jensen, recently published a new folio, Winter Trees III. I purchased it last week, and couldn’t be more pleased. The whole set brought back a flood of [...]