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January 18, 2013 By Elizabeth Leave a Comment

Practice

Practice
Photograph by Dan Deschenes

A friend of mine took this photograph, one of about twenty he snapped of this grasshopper on a summer day. And one of the thousands and thousands and thousands of pictures he took over his lifetime. Just a visual example of that old joke: How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice.

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