{"id":4077,"date":"2019-01-07T11:25:06","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T16:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=4077"},"modified":"2019-01-07T11:25:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T16:25:12","slug":"monday-missive-january-7-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=4077","title":{"rendered":"Monday Missive &#8212; January 7, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Quotes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<em>In a world filled with empty noise, the most important slots are reserved for the poets we seek to listen to, and the poet we seek to become.<\/em>&#8221; &#8212; <strong>Seth Godin<\/strong>, December 25, 2018<\/p>\n<p><em>&nbsp;&#8220;Our ideas regarding success should be our own, and I urge you to pursue it simultaneously from both the inside and the outside. I agree completely with Georgia O\u2019Keefe, who thought that \u201cwhether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.\u201d &#8221;&nbsp;<\/em><strong><em>&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Nobody reads artist\u2019s statements. Learn to tell an interesting story about your work that people can relate to on a personal level.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Not every project will survive. Purge regularly, destroying is intimately connected to creating. This will save you time.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Edit privately. As much as I believe in stumbling, I also think nobody else needs to watch you do it.&nbsp;<\/em>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8212;&nbsp;<strong>Teresita Fern\u00e1ndez<\/strong> excerpted from&nbsp;On Amnesia, Broken Pottery, and the Inside of a Form, seen on&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/lenscratch.com\/2018\/12\/2018-in-the-rear-view-mirror\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lens\/cratch<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lenscratch.com\/2018\/12\/henri-prestes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8211; Henri Prestes: Using weather and darkness to control the mood<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/lenscratch.com\/2018\/12\/hakan-strand-silent-moments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8211; Hakan Strand: Silent Moments<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/article\/artsy-editorial-people-defined-visual-culture-2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8211; The most influential artists of 2018<\/a>&nbsp;Includes photography but also fashion, culture, architecture, etc.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=obCmWXhXwvg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8211; Removing fly-away hair from portraits<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/article\/artsy-editorial-anne-brigman-pioneering-photographer-nude-self-portraits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8211; Anne Brigman: pioneering nude self-portraits<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/aperture.org\/blog\/limelight-helen-gee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8211; The woman behind the first photo gallery<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thephotoargus.com\/2019-photography-challenge-52-photography-techniques-to-try-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8211; 52 Photography techniques to try<\/a> In a winter rut, creativity down? Try some of these to get the juices flowing.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outdoorphotographer.com\/tips-techniques\/photo-tip-of-week\/environmental-portraits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8211; Environmental animal portraits<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/article\/artsy-editorial-5-photographers-follow-december\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8211; 5 photographers to follow<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/article\/artsy-editorial-meditating-better-artist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8211; How meditation can improve creativity<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/BowlerHat_D8E_7411.jpg?fit=584%2C390\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/BowlerHat_D8E_7411.jpg 800w, https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/BowlerHat_D8E_7411-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/BowlerHat_D8E_7411-449x300.jpg 449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Part of an ongoing series on &#8220;Divided Self&#8221;, this was taken at Sandy Point, December 2018.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"336\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Girl_D8E_7399.jpg?fit=584%2C245\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Girl_D8E_7399.jpg 800w, https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Girl_D8E_7399-300x126.jpg 300w, https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Girl_D8E_7399-500x210.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Another for &#8220;Divided Self&#8221; which will contain both poetry and images.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quotes &#8220;In a world filled with empty noise, the most important slots are reserved for the poets we seek to listen to, and the poet we seek to become.&#8221; &#8212; Seth Godin, December 25, 2018 &nbsp;&#8220;Our ideas regarding success should &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=4077\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[486,449,50,47,484,483,701,485,102,339,95],"class_list":["post-4077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-and-quotes","tag-anne-brigman","tag-black-and-white","tag-bw","tag-creativity","tag-hakan-strand","tag-henri-prestes","tag-links-and-quotes","tag-nude","tag-retouching","tag-self-portrait","tag-wildlife"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4077","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=4077"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4139,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4077\/revisions\/4139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}