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Ukrainian Dating – When Mission Is Possible

March 11th, 2011 Comments off

Ukrainian Dating – When Mission Is Possible

Ukraine is not a very popular destination in the travel map, however you will be surprised how many people travel the there in search for love. On contrary ladies here keep their cool and let out their hearts only to those who really have proven high morale and respect.


Many websites offer dating services to wealthy people from the west. Those who read the bottom of the pages actually understand that the journey from correspondence to a first date is long and difficult.


Women from this part of the world have high values. They are open to new acquaintances but do not let anyone enter their daily life and routine. Many believe that it is easy to pick up a girl by telling her your annual income and the model of your car. These are cheap tricks which will not work here.


The quality of the communication will shape the relationship. Little by little the things might become more serious but men should not insist on an immediate meeting because this will ruin every next step.


A good start will be if you prepare your own tagline. Answer a few simple questions and unite the answers in one sentence. Who are you? What do you do? How you do it? People are not products but they have unique qualities and in the sea of endless offers for romance one should be competitive and know well its strong and weak sides.


Also prepare a list of qualities and values that you search in your foreign partner. For example Ukrainians are bilingual. They speak both Ukrainian and Russian but when it comes to English, French or German, not all of them are good at it and the communication could fail. What is truly important for a lady from this country are the moments of shared feelings and interests. These hardly exist when you can not understand each other.


You will be expected to share not only the moment of happiness and mindless chat for weather, music and sports, but also to be ready to dive into new culture where respect to the female and her family plays a major role. Your Ukrainian dating will run smoothly and hopefully will end with a happy marriage if you are honest with your feelings and intentions.


Share as much as you can about your daily life, interests and do not pretend to be someone who you are not. If you plan to invite your sweetheart to your home-country, she will expect to be introduced to your family. Do not promise her anything that you can not make or do. Do not make fun of her home country or the economic situation there, this will offend her.


Many ladies might like to leave Ukraine because of pure economical or political reasons, but they are Ukrainians and deep in their mind they will always feel the call of their homeland. Any inappropriate remarks could be accepted with smile and a laugh, but be sure that your date will not forget them and one day she will get even.


Like any other international dating, here you should keep simple rules. If you have cultural misunderstandings – telling stories, giving examples and explaining why something is made this way or another, or alternatively why specific traditions are kept, will eliminate any problems.


But if you have totally different characters, be sure that no matter how hard you try, this will never work. You can like someone but never love her. Do not condemn your life to someone who you will never understand and/or accept their points of view.

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The biggest Challenge for Photographers and One Possible Answer

October 7th, 2010 Comments off

Imagination, Execution and a Level Playing Field

When Photoshop first came out I was fond of saying that it eliminated the barriers between imagination and execution, and that it would level the playing field in photography as never before.

Fast forward almost twenty years and we see the playing field has been leveled again. The Gate Keepers are gone, swept away by microstock and flickr. Microstock eliminates the barriers to participating in stock by allowing anyone to submit images.

Now Getty has opened the doors to the “biggest” and “badest” traditional stock agency in town (OK, in the world). In just the last few weeks Getty has accepted over 50,000 images from 11,000 flickr photographers.

Flickr and Microstock Opening the Doors

Back in 1990 when I first began using Photoshop I believed that it would make photography skills less important and imagination and creativity much more important. Even though pretty much every image we see these days has been run through Photoshop, I wasn’t really very accurate with my predictions.

Digital capture has perhaps been an even greater force for change, making photography easier, cheaper and quicker. And now we have flickr and Microstock and all the other similar entities all opening the doors to photographers everywhere.

The Biggest Challenge

As a stock photographer you are not just competing with other photographers, you are competing with the best individual images of dedicated photographers through out the world. But that is only one way in which the creativity bar has been raised. The biggest challenge facing us is that of being seen among the mountains of images out there.   That is where our creativity is again challenged. How do we get our work seen by those who will license it?

Words and Images

There are numerous answers to that question. Writing is one answer.   Adding words to your images can provide a huge boost in getting your work seen. There is, ahem, blogging, but there is also article writing, both for the Internet and for the printed page. Yesterday I ran across the most recent copy of Shutterbug magazine. The image on the cover, a shot of a Burmese fisherman on Inle Lake, caught my eye. I have been to Inle Lake several times, and have photographed some of those fishermen myself.

It turns out that the cover photo was shot by a friend of mine, Maynard Switzer. As a matter of fact, I think I was in the boat next to his when he photographed that fisherman! But it is Maynard’s image on the cover of the magazine, not mine.

He doesn’t just have the cover either. Maynard has three more pages in the magazine in an article he wrote about his transition from fashion shooter to travel photographer. Maynard’s ability to write gets his work seen by a huge audience.

Blogs, Articles and Comments

There is no question that the ability to write well is a huge advantage for photographers right now. Writing gets you found in search engines, can get your images on the covers of magazines, and can make your proposals and estimates more effective.

Writing can take the form of magazine articles, photography blogs and e-zine articles, but it can also be effective as well-thought out and informative comments on other people’s blogs. But whatever form your writing takes, the key is to actually do it. So what are you waiting for?

Last-Minute Flight ? It ‘s possible to get cheap last minute travel deals?

October 5th, 2010 Comments off

Most of the time if you go on vacation or a trip that you’re not looking for last – minute flight deals, Because ideally, you made your travel plans in advance. But sometimes, for some reason, you Have to take a minute to myself to be one last trip and I know you’re looking for a cheap ticket on a spur of the moment.

A lot of people will tell you that it is impossible to find cheap flightTickets if you wait until just before the flight. In most cases this is true. But sometimes, with a little digging, you can try a lot.

Your first stop should be the Internet. You can find any deals they need online. First check the online travel agencies like Travelocity and see, come what kind of prices. Will very likely be quite high. If you find anything on any of these sites then go ahead and check with airlines websitethemselves. Sometimes you get a discounted price you can collect the last day or two before the planned visit.

If you are not happy with any of these sites have the best thing to do is pick up the phone and call the airlines. If you wish, within the next 24 hours by car, you can often some bargain prices and that’s why. Airlines want to end flights fill all places on her. Naturally want to fill the higher costsThe prices, but if you find them near the time of the flight plan and did not have a comprehensive plan, are more likely to steep discount rates right about that time.

But the key is, you must call and talk to someone. If you have any success with an airline, try another. And then wait a couple of hours and try again. The closer the flight date, the more likely that minute for a cheap ticket, right there on the last

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