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		<title>Thank you to my contributors and supporters&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have been reading my blog recently, you will know I have been looking for contributors to help support a series of projects here in Indonesia.&#160; Well, I am now very close to my target and so on Thursday will be heading to Makassar to start shooting.&#160; I still need to sort out a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help me to help others&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 06:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the start of February, I will be embarking on a journey to shoot three different personal projects in Sulawesi and Sumatra, all of which will support development and conservation efforts in these locations.&#160; Why do I call them personal projects?&#160; Because I have not commissioned to shoot these stories -&#160; they are of great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting the Tide &#8211; Waste in Indonesia&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bali has a well-deserved reputation as one of the world&#39;s best holiday destinations and millions of tourists arrive on the island every year to explore its culture, landscapes and nightlife.&#160; However this huge influx of people causes an extraordinary problem &#8211; vast amounts of waste and a lack of infrastructure to deal with it. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Merry Christmas from Matthew Oldfield Photography&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 06:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am sitting at my desk, coughing away with a chest infection &#8211; not quite what I planned for Christmas, but who cares&#8230;&#160; Take some meds and I am off to the beach.&#160; The sun and salt water will do me some good.&#160; This year I decided to produce a small Christmas newsletter that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Matthew Oldfield Photography Online&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 04:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who are regular visitors to my site, you might have noticed a complete change to my homepage &#8211; instead of landing on my wordpress site, you are now directed straight into my Photoshelter archive.&#160; There I use a &#39;Photo Wall&#39; to display recent galleries of images, latest updates and links to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can I have your photos for free? &#8211; Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 02:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regular visitors to my site will have read a previous post about requests for free image use and my frustration at having to explain, over and over again, why I believe images should not be given away for free. That post prompted a conversation with my friend, Tony Wu, and kicked off a project that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can I have your photos for free?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 02:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On an almost daily basis I receive requests to use my images.  Unfortunately, the vast majority of these requests are variations of the following &#8211; &#8216;We love your photos, but can&#8217;t pay for them.  Can we have them for free, or in exchange for a link or credit?&#8217;  In my opinion, these requests reflect a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Know of an exciting marine conservation story..?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am in the midst of putting together a pitch to a big conservation/environment organisation for photo features and multimedia pieces that will be used as part of a new information portal focused on the oceans and their management as natural resources.  This project looks like it will be a fantastic opportunity to highlight interesting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bodyboards, bikes and burns &#8211; one month in Bali&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 05:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the reasons I made the move to Bali was to base myself in a place with easy access to interesting stories &#8211; and for a photographer interested in the environment and development, Indonesia is full of extraordinary potential . I also wanted to get back to some semblance of fitness, and so was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life as a freelancer&#8230;</title>
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		<comments>http://matthew-oldfield-photography.com/thoughts/life-as-a-freelancer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Probably the biggest thing I have learnt over the last year or so is how unpredictable and surprising life as a freelancer can be.  Over the last few months, I&#8217;ve put a great deal of effort into marketing myself and getting in touch with people and organisations in the UK, Africa and SE Asia, and [...]]]></description>
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