{"id":6928,"date":"2021-02-08T11:45:10","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T16:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=6928"},"modified":"2021-02-08T11:45:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T16:45:10","slug":"monday-missive-february-8-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=6928","title":{"rendered":"Monday Missive &#8212; February 8, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Quotes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlone time is when I distance myself from the voices of the world so I can hear my own.\u201d &#8212; Oprah Winfrey<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the root of creativity is an impulse to understand, to make sense of random and often unrelated details. For me, photography provides an intersection of time, space, light, and emotional stance. One needs to be still enough, observant enough, and aware enough to recognize the life of the materials, to be able to \u2018hear through the eyes\u2019.\u201d &#8212; Paul Caponigro<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome people feel the rain. Others just get wet.\u201d &#8212; Bob Marley<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Photoessays\/Bodies of Work<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lenscratch.com\/2021\/02\/focus-on-appropriation-britland-tracy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211; Britland Tracy: Focus on appropriation<\/a> Interesting concept and execution.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lenscratch.com\/2021\/02\/donald-r-pettit-spaceborne\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211; Spaceborne: Astronaut\/artist Donald Pettit<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Post-processing<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U5lh8_vzHTE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211; Paint with light to transform your photo<\/a> Make the light you wish you saw.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Field\/Studio<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f4ttm6iVcz4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211; Nigel Danson: Critiquing my own images:  Why the composition didn&#8217;t work<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3qLokBkKUXw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211; Fog and the Zen of Art<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pKo5X5LrFZE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211; Abstract winter nature on your doorstep<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1ZOnNpnLPhg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211; Ultrawide landscapes<\/a> Great Scottish landscape<\/p>\n<p><strong>Miscellany<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2020\/12\/31\/78-year-old-everglades-photographer-didnt-let-a-stroke-slow-him-down\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211; Clyde Butcher<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WSDYschqyjw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8211; Japanese ghost photos<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6964\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6964\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/SnowPatterns.jpg?resize=640%2C466&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"466\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6964\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/SnowPatterns.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/SnowPatterns.jpg?resize=300%2C218&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/SnowPatterns.jpg?resize=412%2C300&amp;ssl=1 412w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6964\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snow patterns.  This image won 2nd place in last week&#8217;s Baltimore Camera Club competition.  Unfortunately I could&#8217;t stay for the Unlimited category judging.  If anyone remembers the judge&#8217;s comments, please pass them on.  Independent thoughts welcome as well.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_6971\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6971\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Nuthatch_D8E_2539.jpg?resize=640%2C512&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"512\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6971\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Nuthatch_D8E_2539.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Nuthatch_D8E_2539.jpg?resize=300%2C240&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Nuthatch_D8E_2539.jpg?resize=375%2C300&amp;ssl=1 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6971\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis).<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quotes \u201cAlone time is when I distance myself from the voices of the world so I can hear my own.\u201d &#8212; Oprah Winfrey \u201cAt the root of creativity is an impulse to understand, to make sense of random and often &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=6928\">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_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":[],"class_list":["post-6928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-and-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8lcUy-1NK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6928","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=6928"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6976,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6928\/revisions\/6976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}