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	<title>Travis Ballard Photography - Hudson Florida Photographer</title>
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		<title>Upcoming events</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We haven&#8217;t been doing a whole lot in the way of professional shooting, we have just been enjoying the summer time with the kids so far.  We took them to Orlando for four fantastic days and  had a great time!!
A few events we do have on the schedule are, September 7th: Photo shoot of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last Few Weekends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Travis and I have been very busy traveling our beautiful state the last few weekends.  We have discovered some fantastic places for pictures as well as for fun.  We have both decided we just have to get underwater gear now because there is a whole other world down under water.  Photography has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ahoy Matey! A Pirate Filled Weekend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hope everyone had a wonderful Independence Day. For the weekend we went up to north Florida to visit my family and just take a little vacation. The day after we got there we ended up shooting a wedding for some friends of the family. I think the photos turned out great for the most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.travisballard.com/adventures/ahoy-matey-a-pirate-filled-weekend/</link>
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		<title>family fun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week on June 9th, I went for a trip up to North-West Florida to visit my family for a week and while I was there I had a chance to take some photos of the family. Unfortunately I wasn&#8217;t able to take all of my stuff with me so umbrellas, light stands, adapters and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing VisitFloridaStateParks.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just wanted to announce a new personal project of ours. Visit Florida State Parks was launched yesterday. Still working on implementing the google maps into it though. it seems to be a little tricky. But our long term goal is to visit all 160 state parks in Florida and write something about each. Apart from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.travisballard.com/tbp-news/introducing-visitfloridastateparkscom/</link>
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		<title>Ybor City shoot has been postponed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today we learned that our model Bianca&#8217;s mother had fallen ill and that she would not be able to attend this weekend. Hopefully we will be able to set a date sometime soon as Pam and I are really excited about this opportunity and Bianca if you&#8217;re reading this, we hope your mother gets better [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honorable Mention in &#8216;In Focus&#8217; Newsletter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought this was really cool so i&#8217;m writing a post about it.  Ann Ullery, the editor for In Focus, has written an article about us in the monthly newsletter for the Chasco Camera Club. Thank you so much, Ann!
This is the first time I have ever had anything published about me so it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.travisballard.com/tbp-news/honorable-mention-in-in-focus-newsletter/</link>
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		<title>On location in Ybor City, Tampa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just wanted to let you guys know that Pam has booked us a shoot for this upcoming weekend (June 1, 2008). we will be revisiting the loverly Ybor City for this one.  I dont know what it is but Ybor has a great feel to it when it comes to portrait photography. the atmosphere [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.travisballard.com/photo-shoots/on-location-in-ybor-city-tampa/</link>
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		<title>Photographer gets harpooned</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, if you have not heard the news already&#8230; Ryan McGeeney, a newspaper photographer for the Standard-Examiner in Provo, Utah has apparently gotten a little too close to the action during a high school track event and caught a javelin in the leg just below his knee. i wonder if the student that hurled the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.travisballard.com/photo-news/photographer-gets-harpooned/</link>
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		<title>Special Effects in Black &#038; White Film Photography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Coming into photography during the digital age I&#8217;ve never known a thing about shooting film. It has always been an intriguing subject to me and i&#8217;ve always wanted to try it at least once. So this is about some techniques that i use all the time and i have recently learned about in the world [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.travisballard.com/tips-and-tricks/special-effects-in-black-white-film-photography/</link>
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