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Happy New Year, it's time for new overview videos!

How did you spend your transition into the new year?

I spent mine editing photo gear overview videos I recorded earlier in the day! Yeah, I knowā€¦ exciting, but one of my resolutions is to improve the traffic to this here website. šŸ™‚ What better way than to produce more photography related content, right?

Here is to a good 2012. I hope you have some new years resolutions too!


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