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Using Online Auctions for Fundraising

Everyone is getting on the bandwagon. Large corporations successfully use eBay auctions to sell excess stock, the Postal Service rids itself of unclaimed merchandise, police departments sell confiscated goods. Thousands of nonprofits are doing business with eBay. Are eBay auctions the fundraiser’s cash machine or are the dangling cash-carrots never quite reachable? There you have both ends [...]

Kiev City Profile

Despite numerous invasions and devastating destruction, the Ukrainian capital of Kiev is still one of the most beautiful cities of Eastern Europe. The Communist period, which lasted barely seventy years, did it little harm. On the contrary, the new potentates of the post-WW-II era built parks and created green spaces, along with the inevitable television [...]

Shape and Form in Photographs

Like our eyes, a camera captures reflected light. If the light source is directly behind the camera, reflections bounce back directly off the subject and give an idea of its shape but not so much of its forms, scale and dimensions. But if lit from behind or from the side, the camera captures more light [...]