{"id":6090,"date":"2020-06-22T09:35:36","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T13:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=6090"},"modified":"2020-06-22T09:35:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T13:35:36","slug":"monday-missive-june-22-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=6090","title":{"rendered":"Monday Missive &#8212; June 22, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Quotes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Inside you, there&#8217;s an artist you don&#8217;t know about.<\/em>\u201d &#8212; <strong>Rumi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.<\/em>\u201d \u2013- <strong>Ansel Adams<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can only lead to a tedious repetition of pictorial cliches.<\/em>\u201d \u2013- <strong>Edward Weston<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Photoessays\/bodies of Work<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lenscratch.com\/2020\/06\/lana-z-caplan-history-based-landscapes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  Sites of public executions<\/a>  Interesting idea and technically very well done.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/eyeshotstreetphotography.com\/reece-amies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  Havana<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Post-processing<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RGMNQkT8sOM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  Cutting out trees without halos or fringing<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Osgt7LP0720\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  Adding two colors to highlights<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-rt7rrZZYA4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  Are you <strong>Under-editing<\/strong> your images?<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=G7vZ0N11CbM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  Understanding curves<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vUyf77flNoE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  Create motion in Photoshop<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YyOXeO2bg4A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  Re-sizing images in PS<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Field\/studio<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nx6ezpp16yw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  How to attract wildlife and set up a blind at home.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Miscellany<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dpreview.com\/articles\/9433714188\/let-it-roll-why-camera-makers-are-going-to-keep-adding-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211;  Why camera makers are going to keep adding video<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6138\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6138\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DayLillyAnthers_D75_3722.jpg?resize=640%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DayLillyAnthers_D75_3722.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DayLillyAnthers_D75_3722.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/DayLillyAnthers_D75_3722.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6138\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Day Lily anthers.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_6140\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6140\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/BlueDasher_D8E_1096.jpg?resize=640%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/BlueDasher_D8E_1096.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/BlueDasher_D8E_1096.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/BlueDasher_D8E_1096.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The blue dasher dragonfly is a very common dragonfly at the Black Marsh Trail.  The diagonal stripes on the thorax and the black tail tip are distinctive.  Females also have the thorax stripes but the abdomen is not the same pale blue.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_6143\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6143\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Chipmunk_D8E_1153.jpg?resize=640%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Chipmunk_D8E_1153.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Chipmunk_D8E_1153.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Chipmunk_D8E_1153.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chipmunk (backyard photography).<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quotes \u201cInside you, there&#8217;s an artist you don&#8217;t know about.\u201d &#8212; Rumi \u201cNo man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=6090\">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":[221,618,646,213,739,740,741,95],"class_list":["post-6090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-and-quotes","tag-curves","tag-fringes","tag-gradient-maps","tag-halos","tag-path-blur","tag-re-size","tag-resize","tag-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8lcUy-1Ae","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6090","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=6090"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6147,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6090\/revisions\/6147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}