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Working with themes

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I've really got a thing for bicycles. I mean I really like riding bicycles, but I really have a thing for shooting bicycles. It doesn't matter where I am. I'm currently standing next to the Hamburger Inn in Mangum, Oklahoma. In fact, if you listen closely, you can hear like, a hamburger machine or something in the background. And there's this bike rack full of old rusty bikes and I cannot help it, I have to stop and shoot them. This week, on the Practicing Photographer, I'm not going to talk about shooting bicycles, though, but I am going to talk about that thing that you might have also. That thing that you just keep finding yourself shooting. I don't know what it is about bicycles. I don't know if it's the simple perfection of those two triangles and two circles. if it's the fact that they always described a nice arrangement of lines. I would never shoot a recumbent bicycle. And I mean no offense to recumbent riders. But it's…

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