How to Edit Photos For Your Blog at Light Speed

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Photo editing can be time consuming and onerous — especially when you’re in a rush to produce a large amount of content. But, there are some tricks you can use to automate most of the process.

I had a friend in Taiwan who was a club photographer. He’d have to shoot until 3 or 4am and then go home and edit 50 photos and send them to the client before morning, so he had to create an extremely efficient workflow. In this tutorial I will show you how he did it, and how I edit photos when I’m in a rush.

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Win a trip to Cuba with Peregrine Adventures

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Looking for something different for your next trip? How about a beautiful country rich with history? Then beautiful Cuba is a good option — and it’s the next trip up for grabs in the Pergrine Adventures 20/20 competition.

This is the first of 20 wonderful adventures Peregrine Adventures is giving away over the next 20 days — so Cuba won’t he the only choice. Every trip will be different. 

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One Minute of Bliss at Canyons Resort, UT

I’ve hit a couple of excellent powder days at Canyons Resort here in Utah and gotten some great photos and videos.  I’m a painfully slow video editor, so until I can get a bigger and better edit up, here’s one a made a couple of weeks ago. It was bliss. )

Which of these extremely different death-defying climbing videos is more insane?

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In the past two days I watched the two most nauseatingly insane free-climbing videos that I’ve ever seen, and they couldn’t be more different.

The first is an amateurish production made by two Russian structure climbers who break in to, and climb, the second tallest building in the world in Shanghai. The footage is simple, shot from GoPro cameras on the climbers’ heads. The effect, though, is an extremely intense as they ascend above the clouds.

The second is a manicured production documenting Alex Honnold — who is according to many the best (if not the most fearless) free climber in history — ascending El Sendero Luminoso without any ropes and completing what some are calling the most difficult free-climb in history.

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11 Of The Best Travel Products You’ll Never Want To Be Without

In January I visited winter Outdoor Retailer (OR) 2014 — the biggest trade show for outdoors and travel brands in North America — in search of the newest, most innovative, products that help people to travel longer and better with less baggage. This list contains the most innovative, versatile, travel-friendly products that I found.

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