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Welcome to Spark an Idea Thursday’.  Each week we’ll be sharing some great ideas for a topic of interest to our readers.  We invite you to grab our image and carry the tradition through to your own blog!  If you do, please link back to this post so we know...

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Within 24 hours, the Andre Sobel River of Life Foundation Can Give a Family Hope and Relief This Father’s Day Father’s Day takes a moment out of the year and our increasingly hectic lives to recognize all the special Dads and father figures who have provided us with love, guidance, and...

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Welcome to ‘Spark an Idea Thursday’.  Each week we’ll be sharing some great ideas for a topic of interest to our readers.  We invite you to grab our image and carry the tradition through to your own blog!  If you do, please link back to this post so we know...

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Dads, here’s your chance to win a Clarisonic Skin Care System. Here’s the down low on our Father’s Day Giveaway prize: Clarisonic Skin Care recognizes that men are just as discerning about their grooming products as women are. Created by the inventor of the Sonicare toothbrush, the Clarisonic uses sonic technology and...

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My name is Nick Bostic, I’m one of the Sparkplugging  interns and I’m a PC. The fact that I’m a PC has been further solidified lately and is part of the reason you haven’t seen me here yet.  Apple has been killing my PC.  Let me back up a moment… I grew...

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Joeprah Twitter: @joeprah A great blog about a stay at home dad and his family. Discovering Dad Twitter: @jnbammer Discovering what it means to be a dad. Building Camelot Twitter: @buildingcamelot Helping men become better dads & husbands. The Nordquist Blog Twitter: @akula Brett is one of the most underrated Daddy bloggers on the planet.  Sincere and eloquent, he chronicles...

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Welcome to ‘Spark an Idea Thursday’.  Each week we’ll be sharing some great ideas for a topic of interest to our readers.  We invite you to grab our image and carry the tradition through to your own blog!  If you do, please link back to this post so we know...

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When your job interferes with your marriage it causes all sorts of problems. You know what I'm talking about. Too much time at work, thinking and talking about work when you are at home, and getting upset over things at home because of work stress....

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OK, so in my first post I kind of introduced myself as a husband and a dad of three beautiful little girls trying to find a way to quit my full time job to pursue my dreams of running my own marketing business. We’ll I’m announcing it here that I have...

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Welcome to ‘Spark an Idea Thursday’.  Each week we’ll be sharing some great ideas for a topic of interest to our readers.  We invite you to grab our image and carry the tradition through to your own blog!  If you do, please link back to this post so we know...

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So I’m very excited  to be writing for Sparkplugging.com and thrilled  to share my thoughts with you over the next few weeks but first I’d like to introduce myself, OK? First off, I’m very happily married to a wonderful woman, Michelle.  Michelle and I just recently got married in a very...

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Things are a little slow in January, so I thought I would mention some of the books that helped me early-on in my photography career. When I was just starting out, I went through a period of about 3 months where I did nothing but read about photography. While there are...

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Ask just about any young boy what he wants to be when he grows up and the answer will likely involve being an elite athlete – usually football or baseball – or an astronaut. My youngest son deviates slightly from these typical career ambitions as his dream is to be a...

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How would you like to share a few of the things that you have learned about being a great dad? Or maybe you have learned a few things that one should not do as a father and would like to help other dads from making the same mistakes. Well, you’re in luck… Tanni...

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It seems like just yesterday that we were celebrating New Year’s Eve – in 2007! The last year flashed by in the proverbial blink of an eye and there are quite a few new faces around now that were not here earlier in the year. Therefore I thought that it would be...

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Recently I had a friend of mine ask me about low-light shooting. Well, not just any friend – the illustrious leader of Sparkplugging.com, no less. She was interested in ways to improve her camera’s performance in low-light conditions, and so I decided to write this post to offer some tips...

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Are you a crazy picture-taker when it comes to the holidays? Do you try to get a shot of every moment taking place during the big day? Hello, my name is Eric and I am a Christmas Photo Abuser (CPA). Hiiiii Eric. My tendency every Christmas was to break out the camera...

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As you might remember, I participated in a charity event known as Movember that was intended to raise awareness for men’s health issues, with a focus on prostate cancer and the Prostate Cancer Foundation for participants in the United States. To see how much money I raised for the Prostate Cancer...

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Sometimes we lose sight of all the things the mother of our children, or our own mother when we were youngsters, does on a daily basis. When you stop and think of the things that a mom does every single day (now, that doesn’t mean there aren’t dads doing...

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Christmas is almost here, and with it comes some excellent opportunities for taking pictures. If you are like me and spend a fair amount of time setting up a tree, lights, and decorations, take some time to capture that before Christmas morning. Here are some tips to get the most...

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