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...camera is likely to fall out of his pocket, but few shutterbugs know how to put their camera to best use. Holiday photos are often more Addams Family than Ansel Adams and usually draw only polite murmurs from captive audiences. Yet an increasing number of photography breaks are helping amateur photographers tap their creative juices. Courses last from a weekend to a fortnight, in destinations from Bhutan, where students learn to capture the color of the Jambay Lhakhang Festival, to Iceland's volcanic landscape. Experts help to transform snapshot-happy tourists into travel photographers. They advise on lenses, composition, framing...
...bankers’ boys in blazers and jeans like a bunch of dime-store White Stripes, girls furred in leg warmers against the warmth of the May, and each one of them First Secretary of the Students Allied for South Uighur Vegetarianism or President of the Junior Guild for Amateur Bakecraft...
...borrowed the rest of his clothes from wardrobe. Then he shut out anyone and everything that reminded him that he was Joaquin Phoenix. "He came around the corner for this concert scene," recalls Miller, "and he just had the swagger and confidence. He was Johnny Cash--badass. For an amateur like me, it was suddenly clear what real acting...
...wine connoisseurs, the phrase homemade wine conjures up images of the dense, sweet plonk made in some grandfather's basement. Like bathtub gin, amateur vino is long on tradition and alcohol but generally short on finesse and taste. But taking their cues from the microbrew-beer hobbyists of the 1990s, an increasing number of oenophiles are making their own vintages that are not only refined but often also award winning...
...changed the rules to permit every household with two adults in residence to make 200 gallons of wine or beer a year. While that sanctioned the work of immigrant winemakers--often Italians and Greeks trying to maintain a liquid connection to the land and traditions they left behind--the amateur vintners usually relied on rustic equipment and grapes they grew in their backyards. Today's garagistes (French for the home enthusiasts who make vintages where they used to park their cars) have gone upscale, using modern equipment, better grapes and juices and prepackaged kits to make their Cabernets, Sauvignon Blancs...