Heaven's Missing Ingredient

What will Heaven be like? Will we like it when we get there? An analysis of God's expulsion of Adam and Even from the Garden of Eden, and what it can tell us about Heaven, Man, and the mind of God.

Ethical Dilemmas in Daily Life - Rats in My Backyard, Part 2

Then one day I saw one rat, a single big one, struggling to walk on my patio and clearly dying. Something was wrong with the animal. He had difficulty standing on his legs, shivering, with strange formations around its mouth. Ahhh... my heart sank! POISON... So there it was, the INTENDED result of my Home Depot campaign to clean up my backyard from this infestation. It really didn't feel right and I still find it hard to explain the feeling.

Communion With The Infinite - The Visual Music of the Shipibo Tribe of the Amazon

The Shipibo people of the Upper Amazon in Peru, have a unique and complex form of visionary art. Underlying the intricate geometric patterns of great complexity displayed in the art of the Shipibo people is a concept of an all pervading magical reality which can challenge the Western linguistic heritage and rational mind.

Art Work and Paintings from Daniel Hesidence Artist

Daniel Hesidence’s most recent body of work. Shifting from the lyrical eclecticism of his FARM and Post FARM paintings.Daniel Hesidence. View art work,selected exhibitions and paintings of artist Daniel Hesidence at The Saatchi Gallery - London contemporary art gallery.

Getting The Best Out Of Your Digital Camera

Get to know the features in a digital camera that will help you to make the best use of it. Zoom lens, mega pixel resolution and auto focus are covered as well.

Great Black And White With Digital?

Digital black and white often doesn't stand up well against film. Can you get great black and white photos from digital? Yes, you can. And this article explains how.

Basic Digital Photography

Photography, from the Greek for writing in light, has rewritten our notion of time and history. Digital photography is reworking our notion of reality itself. One of the great technological innovations of the 19th century is once again leading the way in the 21st. Here is your chance to be a part of the revolution to start Shooting Digital.

A Trend for the Future?

The grocery store gets you to shop there by offering a coupon that makes you an offer you can't refuse. Commercial stock photo portals are catching on. What could be better than free photos? Stock photography portals are drawing photobuyers into their websites with the alluring come-on of free photos.

Straight From The Hard Drive

ADVANCE NOTES: They said it would come. We wrote about it back in '95 and '96. It's royalty-based picture-selling. No, not royalty-free, but Royalty with a capital R. MP3 music files, remind us that selling direct to photobuyers may eventually be the distribution of choice for freelance stock photographers (and photobuyers).

Artist Banks Violette's Art Work And Paintings At The Saatchi Gallery

Banks Violette has made melting black drum kits and small stages; he paints horrific skulls, mournful faces, and galloping white horses too.

Friendship Poems 6 - Thinking of You

This is for the friend or family member whom you have not seen or heard from in a while. You just want the person to know that he has not been forgotten. In fact, you think of him every day. Not only do you think of him everyday, but you also...

Friendship Poems 10 - When Two Hearts Become One

This is one of the best ways to send well wishes to a friend living far away who is getting married. Two lives merging together is never easy and it takes a lot of work on both sides. However, there is no greater union than the institution of marriage. All of the mysteries of bringing two hearts together as one will . . .

I Am

I wrote this poem when I was doing soo many things at one time in my life. This is simply about a time in my busy life.

The Whale Hunter And The Fur Traders (As Told In 1750 In The Aleutian Islands)

The peaceful Unangan people of the Aleutian Islands had their lives disrupted when Russian fur traders descended upon their villiages. The indegenous people, known as Aleuts today, had their culture ripped apart as their population dwindled just like the otters they were forced to hunt.