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	<title>Francis Vachon - Editorial photographer / photojournalist - Quebec City, Canada</title>
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		<title>Pictures soon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not a lot of pictures posted here recently, right? It’s just because I worked mainly for magazine for the last 2 weeks. This Friday, with the new edition of La Semaine, I should be able to post 3 assignments I did for them
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		<link>http://www.francisvachon.com/blog/2008/08/27/pictures-soon/</link>
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		<title>How much should you charge?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So you are following my blog for a while now. So you read me about micro-stock, about standing you ground when it comes to negotiate. And now you want to start charging a fair price too. So where do you start? How much do you charge? How much is a fair price? 
It all depends [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.francisvachon.com/blog/2008/08/20/how-much-should-you-charge/</link>
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		<title>Shameless brag (2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thank you, Jonathan Roy. After your “show” in Chicoutimi, CBS’s Air Farce bought me a picture of you. And now that you will face the court for your action, one of my photos of you is featured in… Sports Illustrated! 
Since the photo was sold thru the Canadian Press agency, I don’t know yet how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.francisvachon.com/blog/2008/08/19/shameless-brag-2/</link>
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		<title>For sale: Canon 70-200 F2.8, non-IS *sold*</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Edit: Lens is now sold
Canon 70-200 F2.8 for sale. This is NOT the IS version. On the photo below, you will notice that their is no tripod collar. It&#8217;s just that I don&#8217;t use it and I forgot the put it back for the photo. But it IS included. UV filter is included to.
The glass [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.francisvachon.com/blog/2008/08/15/for-sale-canon-70-200-f28-non-is/</link>
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		<title>Another TV crew attacked in Georgia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After Gorgian and Canadian journalists, it&#8217;s now a Turkish TV crew that experiences the pleasure of being shot at in Georgia. This one is very scary; you can see the bullets flying by as they try to escape.
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		<link>http://www.francisvachon.com/blog/2008/08/15/another-tv-crew-attacked-in-georgia/</link>
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		<title>Covering Georgia-Russia war</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Georgian reporter is shot at while doing a live, and a Radio-Canada (French-Canadian CBS) crew have their car and everything they have but a camera stolen at gun point a checkpoint.
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		<link>http://www.francisvachon.com/blog/2008/08/14/covering-georgia-russia-war/</link>
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		<title>Photographers’ geek time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a photo pit at the Beijing’s Olympics. Others have counted 38 Canons and 45 Nikons. And 3 females.
Also, check out this NFL Maden 09 video game trailer. Look at the sideline. You will see a lot of photographers, and some of them are even chimping!
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		<link>http://www.francisvachon.com/blog/2008/08/14/photographers%e2%80%99-geek-time/</link>
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		<title>Photojournalist’s dictionary: What is chimping?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“To chimp” is the action of looking at the back of the camera to make sure that “we got the shot”. Doing so is often followed by showing the picture to the photographer beside us to brag about the great shot. And then, this other photographer might say “Who! Wha!”, just like a chimp.
Photojournalists like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.francisvachon.com/blog/2008/08/14/photojournalist%e2%80%99s-dictionary-what-is-chimping/</link>
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		<title>The importance of networking and having a website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago, a photographer that I chat with on a photographer web forum announced that he accepted a job as photo director at an important Quebec magazine. Got a call today. Guess who doing a shooting for that magazine this Friday?
I also got a cold call for a another job thru my website. Again, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.francisvachon.com/blog/2008/08/13/the-importance-of-networking-and-having-a-website/</link>
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		<title>La Presse photographer attacked during a riot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During Montreal’s riot, a La Presse photographer was attacked, and 20000$ worth of gear was stolen. 
La Presse editorialist Yves Boivert: 
C&#8217;est devenu une routine: du grabuge dans les rues de Montréal et, le lendemain, des policiers débarquent dans les salles de rédaction pour saisir les images captées par les photographes et caméramans. (…)Il est [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.francisvachon.com/blog/2008/08/12/la-presse-photographer-attacked-during-a-riot/</link>
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