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This page accompanies a two-part, eight-hour hands-on training session for journalists, mostly newspaper reporters.

It is easy to confuse photographs with reality. To many of us, photographs are reality. But however real they may seem, they are not reality.

Ellen Ugelstad, a Norwegian camera jockey, has found her answer at the opposite end our lives. Our feet. Or, more accurately, our shoes. The Shoe Project, aptly titled, pairs head and shoulder shots of people with shots of their shoes

. The now-infamous Google Street View van has captured embarrassing moments, created accidental celebrities and documented interesting urban changes over time.