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<p>Last month's photography challenges were Red and Back lighting. I took several approaches to the back lighting of portraits using candles and a lamp but none of them captured the essence of what I was looking for so I abandoned them. My final submission wasn't that good and the competition proved to be better than my efforts. To see the other u3a photography group efforts <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://westwoldsu3a.org/?page_id=8458" target="_blank">click here...</a></p>
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