{"id":2203,"date":"2017-05-22T00:24:19","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T04:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=2203"},"modified":"2017-05-22T00:24:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T04:24:19","slug":"monday-missive-may-22-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=2203","title":{"rendered":"Monday Missive &#8212; May 22, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Quotes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.<\/em>\u201d \u2013 <strong>A. A. Milne<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It\u2019s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. &#8230; And that enables you to laugh at life\u2019s realities.<\/em>\u201d \u2013 <strong>Dr. Seuss<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one\u2019s better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.<\/em>\u201d \u2013 <strong>Maxwell Maltz<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href = \"https:\/\/contrastly.com\/5-tips-to-spark-up-your-creativity\/\">&#8211; Sparking your creativity<\/a><br \/>\n<a href = \"http:\/\/www.creative-photographer.com\/photographic-creativity\/\">&#8211; Four ways to unblock creativity<\/a><br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/james_geary_metaphorically_speaking\">&#8211; Metaphor and creativity<\/a> Ted Talk. If your pictures tell stories, they are metaphors, therefore it might be helpful to better understand the role of metaphor in communication<br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/contrastly.com\/protest-photography-101\/\">&#8211; Protest photography<\/a><br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/selling-your-photography\">&#8211; Selling your photographs<\/a><br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/www.outdoorphotographer.com\/tips-techniques\/photo-tip-of-week\/not-still-picture\/\">&#8211; Finding the right shutter speed to show movement<\/a><br \/>\n<a href = \"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/03\/04\/creativity-habits_n_4859769.html\">&#8211; Creativity<\/a><br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oRHOWD6pXYA&#038;feature=em-subs_digest\">&#8211; Adding a background blur to show motion without getting a halo<\/a><br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T_Gg5d2Zlpw&#038;feature=em-subs_digest\">&#8211; Adding a field blur to the background to highlight your subject<\/a><br \/>\n<a href = \"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XZc0ISalAbQ&#038;feature=em-subs_digest-vrecs\">&#8211; Using the gradient filter in LR<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2218\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2218\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/CalvertCliffs_D75_6514.jpg?resize=584%2C390&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"390\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/CalvertCliffs_D75_6514.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/CalvertCliffs_D75_6514.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/CalvertCliffs_D75_6514.jpg?resize=449%2C300&amp;ssl=1 449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the surf at Calvert Cliffs.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quotes \u201cWhen you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=2203\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31],"tags":[125,47,124,701,123,122],"class_list":["post-2203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-and-quotes","tag-blur","tag-creativity","tag-gradient-filter","tag-links-and-quotes","tag-protest-photography","tag-selling"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8lcUy-zx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2203"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2221,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions\/2221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}