Alaminos National High School Classmates

• Pro Photo Life featured a guest video tutorial this week, on lighting, with David Tejada. Be sure to check it out and get en-light-ened!

• Eating your subjects is usually not a good idea, whether you are doing scientific experiments or photography. But there is one exception: food photography. And that’s where the food photography tutorial at Pixsylated comes in!

• Interested in architectural photography, but getting started may seem overwhelming? Try this introductory post at Digital Photography Skool.

• Wikis are always a hot topic. So if you have time to spare or you are stuck in an airport frustrated and waiting, you can evaluate the photography portal at Wikipedia and see where they screwed up. Oops, that sounded a little biased

• If you like to check out book reviews, be sure to check TWIP Photo. They have 19 reviews to date, the latest one the High Dynamic Range book by Ferrell McCollough.

Most of the things that we enjoy today are possible because of electricity. Name it, radio, television, computer and many more. All of this is made to run by electricity being supplied right to our homes.

Stop, and think, how would our lives be different if there was no electricity? We would probably be living in a very dark and silent world, one that is boring.

Where does electricity come from?

How does it reach us?

Electricity comes from huge generators in power stations turned by turbines driven round by a force of water or high pressure steam depending on the source.

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