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		<title>Second Edition in the can</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Four years after finishing up the initial manuscript of &#8220;Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity,&#8221; I&#8217;ve finished up the second edition and it&#8217;s off to the printer. It&#8217;s been a fascinating process of seeing where the world of these cameras has come in a few short years. The book is 32 pages longer, I&#8217;ve added 21 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holga Inspires Massachusetts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the past month, the Holga Inspire exhibition has been at at the Hallmark Institute Gallery in Turners Falls, MA. Since I love Boston and western MA, I took the opportunity to head across for the opening. The town is north of Northampton, MA, close to Vermont, in a gorgeous part of the world. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Workshop Fun!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a year for branching out and trying new teaching formats. Last summer, I did a two-week long workshop at the Penland School of Crafts, which was loads of fun, and let me have enough time with the students for them to actually get used to the cameras, play with subjects and techniques, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shows, shows &amp; more shows!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This has been a really fun run of having my work out and about for people to see. At the beginning of 2009, I dusted off one of my favorite series, &#8220;After the Fire,&#8221; and hung them at Office Nomads, where they looked great hung against the funky brick walls. They were last shown many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michellebates.net/blog/?p=77</link>
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		<title>From Seattle to Times Square!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in March, during the Moisture Festival (Seattle&#8217;s fabulous vaudeville/variete festival), I did a photo shoot with a group called the Flaming Idiots. They were reuniting after 5 years apart, debuting at the Moisture Fest, where I also shot them live, in preparation for a run at the New Victory Theater in Times Square, New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Benham Gallery &#8211; the last show</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve known Marita Holdaway since I moved to Seattle in the early 1990&#8242;s. It&#8217;s almost impossible to be in the Seattle photography community and not cross paths; with her seemingly limitless energy and passion for photography, she&#8217;s been making things happen for over 20 years here. Needing a change of scenery, she&#8217;s decided to close [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moisture Festival Photo Show &amp; Book!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Its first year, 2004, the Moisture Festival was in a circus tent in a parking lot in the middle of Seattle&#8217;s Fremont neighborhood. I went to one show, and mostly remember dancing to the band afterward, the cold air blowing in under the tent flaps. What a long way the festival has come since then, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michellebates.net/blog/?p=74</link>
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		<title>Photo Plus report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once again this year, I made it to NYC in October for Photo Plus Expo, the huge photo trade show at the Javitz Center. The weather this year was lovely most of the time, which made getting around the city delightful, and once it started pouring rain, we were all happy to be in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michellebates.net/blog/?p=73</link>
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		<title>&#8220;The Fairy Godmother of the Holga&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My website was featured in the November 2009 issue of Shutterbug Magazine, in the Web Profiles section, by Joe Farace (p 92): www.michellebates.net &#8220;This month&#8217;s Reader&#8217;s Homepage belongs to Michelle Bates, the fairy godmother of the Holga who wrote the definitive book on the subject, Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity. If you don&#8217;t already have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michellebates.net/blog/?p=72</link>
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		<title>Connection to the Past in Portland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last weekend of September, I once again drove down to Portland, Oregon, this time with a van full of photographs, hanging tools, and other show paraphernalia. I went early, to check out Alberta Last Thursday, which is an art walk crossed with a street fair, in Portland style. They close down the whole street [...]]]></description>
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