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News
Ryu & Matt talk about end of year self-evaluation and Ryu’s decision to enter some contests. Matt asks for some listener help on whether a MacBook Air can handle RAW editing.

Master Class
In response to a listener question, Ryu and Matt start a three-part Master Class talking about what goes into getting ready for a shoot.

Training Ground
Training Ground is now on video. If you’d like to participate (and we think you should), enter your pictures in the Flickr thread and make sure to tag them BLFSTG201311.

You Win
Our December 2013 themed competition was “Anything Goes”

The winner was Jan Mulders with this rugby picture.
Second place was Simon Wright with this soccer picture.
Third place was Mike Groom with this racing picture.
The January 2014 themed competition is “Seasonally appropriate”. Goto our BLFS flickr group page for competition rules and to enter.

Cross-Counter
Our new segment where we say good things about sports photographs is called Cross-Counter.  But after seeing Sports Illustrated’s 2013 Pictures of the Year, we took a break from saying good things.

Special thanks to…
Our new producer Robb Massar
Icon by Arvin Bautista

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