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Wow!  When I first started this series of articles, I never imagined it would get to a Pt IV let along a Pt IX!

How do you track your progress with regard to the success of your online efforts – your own website and social media?  There are a few tools that can give you some insights into how well your online presence is optimised.  Of course, you can look at the number of people who ‘Like’ your Facebook Page or the number of followers you have on Twitter but those are sort of cursory numbers.  Twitter followers are often a ‘me too’ type of activity.  We follow those who others follow.  Often someone hits the Like button on a Facebook Page because they know the person or they’re a friend of a friend.

I’m not going to get into Facebook stats in this article (maybe in a Pt X) but will suggest a few tools that can help tell you how well your online presence is set up and how it might be improved. Tracking Progress, con't >>

Applications or ‘apps’ are the things that make smartphones and tablets more fun and more useful.  In an earlier article, I looked at the camera in the new Samsung Galaxy S II LTE.  In this article, I’m going to walk you through an app to go along with the camera – Photo Enhance Pro HD.  This is a paid app but there is a slightly stripped down free version as well.  The phone comes with a stock photo editor app but often third party apps have enhanced functionality or more features. Photo Enhance Pro HD Review, con't >>

When the Apple iPhone came out with, about, the third iteration it had a reasonably decent camera and sparked a whole sub-genre of photography called iPhoneography.  Some big name photographers started taking, displaying and selling iPhone images.  A whole host of apps were created to complement iPhoneography.  As surprising as it sounds, not everyone has an iPhone nor does everyone want an iPhone.  But for those who aren’t ‘Apple people’ you can get in on the game too.  Android smartphones have cameras as well (so do Blackberry phones but in my experience, RIM’s implementation of cameras is pretty weak) and some are as good or better than what’s in the iPhone.  I’m going to take a look a a new one on the market, the Samsung Galaxy SII. Samsung Galaxy S II LTE, cont'd >>

With cooler weather headed our way here in northern N.A. climes, outdoor photographers have to start to thing about keeping warm in the chillier temps.  Hands are particularly difficult because of the need to handle the camera and manipulate the controls.  Cool Weather Warmth, cont' >>

Keep your head up!  Watch where you’re going!  Remember being told those things as a kid?  You’d walk along head down, in your own little world, bumping into this and that.  So as you get older, you walk with your head up, watching where you’re going.  And what happens?  You trip over tree roots or raised sidewalk blocks….. Looking Down, con't >>

Sometimes there are good reasons to work free of charge.  If you support a charitable organisation that uses photographic work in its fundraising, this may be an example of where you might provide your services or work product at no charge.  In the vast majority of cases; however, you want to get paid for your efforts.  We all do.  I know I’m not alone when I say that I receive numerous requests to provide work at no cost for some purpose or other.  Often times the end use is a commercial venture for the party asking for the free work. Working for Free, con't >>