{"id":5906,"date":"2020-05-04T10:16:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T14:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=5906"},"modified":"2020-05-04T10:16:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T14:16:40","slug":"monday-missive-may-4-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=5906","title":{"rendered":"Monday Missive &#8212; May 4, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Quotes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>I have been obsessed for years with finding new projects to work on. &#8230; At times, I have purposely let go of that frame of mind and gone with, what I would tell myself, is the pleasure of just taking pictures.  Sometimes it has worked out, sometimes it hasn&#8217;t.<\/em>&#8221; &#8212; <strong>Alejandro Catagena<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>While images are strong individually, the experience of reading the accompanying text is integral to shaping the overall meaning.<\/em>&#8221; &#8212; <strong>Kelli Connell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>To send light into the darkness of men\u2019s hearts \u2013 such is the duty of the artist.<\/em>\u201d \u2013 <strong>Schumann<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Photoessays\/Bodies of Work<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lenscratch.com\/2020\/04\/barbara-peacock-american-bedroom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  American Bedroom<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/history\/2020\/04\/globe-trotting-photographers-rediscover-backyards-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  Corona virus around the world<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lenscratch.com\/2020\/04\/stephen-garza\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  Stephen Garza:  Arriving 2020<\/a> One of the more interesting Corona related portfolios.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/plainmagazine.com\/nicolas-rottiers-blacklands\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  Shapes and shadows of Scotland<\/a> Very nice low key landscapes<\/p>\n<p><strong>Post-processing<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JczhJC8mVms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  Injecting mood and emotion into your landscape images<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b8MbRbgXpCg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  Lighting a portrait in Photoshop<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Field\/Studio<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dpreview.com\/videos\/7687676515\/dpreview-tv-fun-with-bokeh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  Fun with Bokeh<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fstoppers.com\/education\/creative-waterdrop-photography-you-can-try-home-477351\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  Simple water drop photography<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Miscellany<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QHY1CRMmIsU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  Using Instagram to become a better photographer<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lrISAL4STnE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  The most important lessons for your photography<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally getting out of the &#8220;pandemic funk.&#8221;  Made it out to Black Marsh on Friday in a light rain.  One car in the parking lot; saw two people on the trail, but easy to physically distance.  Parts of the trail were completely flooded, with water flowing from one side to the other.  Trail leading to the marsh was very muddy in some parts.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5960\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5960\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/GBHinRain_D8E_0834.jpg?resize=640%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/GBHinRain_D8E_0834.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/GBHinRain_D8E_0834.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/GBHinRain_D8E_0834.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5960\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great blue heron on the Black Marsh Trail.  Color graded with Teal-Orange LUT at 50%.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/CanGeese_D8E_0825.jpg?resize=640%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/CanGeese_D8E_0825.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/CanGeese_D8E_0825.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/CanGeese_D8E_0825.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_5964\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5964\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Columbine_D75_3232.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5965\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Columbine_D75_3232.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Columbine_D75_3232.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Columbine_D75_3232.jpg?resize=449%2C300&amp;ssl=1 449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5964\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Columbine from the front yard.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quotes &#8220;I have been obsessed for years with finding new projects to work on. &#8230; At times, I have purposely let go of that frame of mind and gone with, what I would tell myself, is the pleasure of just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=5906\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[456,721,719,428,54,718,223,23,72,306,722,720],"class_list":["post-5906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-and-quotes","tag-bokeh","tag-corona-virus","tag-don-komarechka","tag-instagram","tag-lighting","tag-lighting-effects","tag-low-key","tag-macro","tag-portraits","tag-scotland","tag-stephen-garza","tag-water-drop"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8lcUy-1xg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5906","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=5906"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5969,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5906\/revisions\/5969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}