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Here are some digital photography tips to help you improve your skills:

1. Understand your camera: Familiarize yourself with your camera’s settings and modes (e.g., aperture, shutter speed, ISO).
2. Pay attention to lighting: Natural light is best, but learn to work with artificial light too.
3. Composition is key: Consider the rule of thirds, leading lines, and framing your subject.
4. Focus on your subject: Use autofocus or manual focus to ensure a sharp image.
5. Experiment with angles: Don’t be afraid to try unique perspectives and viewpoints.
6. Simplify the background: A cluttered background can distract from your subject.
7. Play with depth of field: Aperture controls how much of the image is in focus.
8. Capture moments, not just poses: Tell a story with your photos.
9. Edit your photos: Adjust brightness, contrast, and saturation to enhance your images.
10. Practice, practice, practice: The more you shoot, the better you’ll become!

Remember, photography is an art, and the most important thing is to have fun!

Would you like more tips or specific advice on a particular aspect of digital photography?

At least three people were killed and six others were injured when a bus in St. Petersburg, Russia, drove off a bridge into the Moika River, authorities said.

Senate on Thursday, May 9, approved the death penalty for those convicted on the charge of drug trafficking in the country.

The punishment prescribed in the extant NDLEA Act is a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.

The resolution of the Senate followed its consideration of a report of the Committees on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters and Drugs and Narcotics, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Act (Amendment) Bill, 2024.

The Chairman of the Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights & Legal Matters presented the report during plenary, Senator Mohammed Monguno (APC-Borno North).

The bill, which passed its third reading, aims to update the list of dangerous drugs, strengthen the operations of the NDLEA, review penalties, and empower the establishment of laboratories.

Section 11 of the current act prescribes that “any person who, without lawful authority; imports, manufactures, produces, processes, plants or grows the drugs popularly known as cocaine, LSD, heroin or any other similar drugs shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to be sentenced to imprisonment for life” was amended to reflect a stiffer penalty of death.

Congratulations to two-time Air Force Marathon champion, Jason Salyer for being Flying Pig’s 2024 full marathon champion!

This is how “boda boda” riders in parts of rural DR Congo transport corpse to and from the mortuary.
It’s a lucrative business to venture as it pays handsomely well.

A fan commented “So in DRC motorbikes are for carrying dead corpse,,coz I don’t think a normal person can sit in a hearse and use it to go somewhere urgently,, meaning if you to to a place let’s say these short distances you just walk coz motorbikes are for carrying dead people or they are just on stage waiting for someone to die problem is that it’s hard to get daily bread coz people don’t die daily so it doesn’t  pay handsomely well since it’s not everyday salary”

What do you think about this?

The internet, dating websites, and social media have made it easier for people to cheat, but also easier to get caught due to the digital trail left behind. Infidelity can have devastating consequences on individuals, families, and society. Surprisingly high prevalence rates of infidelity and changing attitudes towards it have been observed. Eight main reasons for infidelity have been identified, and strategies such as building companionate love and understanding the real nature of infatuation may help reduce the likelihood of cheating. If infidelity has occurred, both parties taking ownership and seeking help can lead to a healthier relationship in the future.

Why Do Some People Cheat in Relationships and Others Remain Faithful?

Everything in this world bombards us day after day with content that is created hour after hour and keeps us distant and disconnected from reality.

Reels that we watch over and over again maybe to block certain parts of our thoughts that hurt us and we avoid thinking, but… don’t many of those videos or posts continually bring us more and more ideas that in the end increase the problem in those thoughts we are trying to avoid?

Maybe one had certain ideas about a certain topic and suddenly someone comes to put another point of view in our head, and of course it is not wrong because we must be open to different points of view…. the problem comes when hearing someone “popular” say it makes many people hear those words as a truth, a truth that enters those heads and allows a manipulation of their thoughts causing more mental conflicts that take them away from their own identity.

People giving advice on love, life, cooking and a myriad of topics which are often no longer questioned and not analyzed that all content creators just live on clicks, views and likes, and that’s why those contents are not really thought to do good in the minds of people, it is simply to generate a monetary benefit for the one who generates it. Of course, as in everything there are exceptions, but let’s face it, there are only a few.

And well thanks to that now we have millions of people in the world without knowing who they are or who they are, what to think and what not to think, millions of people without a true identity … that at the end of the day that identity is what defines who and what we are.

We always have to remember…the internet is that virtual world where what people expose the least is their reality.

With midterm just around the corner, we are finally ditching the textbooks for a suitcase and escaping to the Netherlands to visit Valters cousin. While we are super excited to finally visit our Duch family and marvel at the colourful sea of blooming tulips, we are also happy because it’s going to be Lily’s very […]

Escaping Rainy Ireland and Jetting Off to the Netherlands

Nigeria 🇳🇬 legend Tijani Babangida (50) was on Thursday involved in a frightful car accident that claimed the life of his younger brother Ibrahim Babangida.

The 1996 Olympics GOLD medallist and his family, including his wife, have been hospitalised.

Malian man, Foutanga Babani Sissoko scammed Dubai Islamic Bank of $242 million despite being an illiterate.

He told the Deputy Director he could double money with magic.

He was a Lawmaker from 2002-2014. He wasn’t arrested for this because Mali doesn’t have an extradition deal.

He founded an airline called Air Dabia. It had three aircraft.

He started constructing a large hotel in Bamako in the 90s.