{"id":8384,"date":"2022-06-06T00:01:15","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T04:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=8384"},"modified":"2022-06-06T00:01:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T04:01:15","slug":"monday-missive-june-6-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=8384","title":{"rendered":"Monday Missive &#8212; June 6, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Quotes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things<\/em>.&#8221; &#8212; <strong>Georgia O&#8217;Keeffe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>That&#8217;s the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.<\/em>&#8221; -\u2014 <strong>Sofia Coppola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>I think doing something creative is the most important thing to me, and I think it&#8217;s probably just good for the soul for anyone, whatever it is &#8230; I think everyone needs to create something.<\/em>&#8221; -\u2014 <strong>Ricky Gervais<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Photoessays\/Bodies of Work<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lenscratch.com\/2022\/05\/making-darkness-visible-wouter-vanhees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8212; Interesting urban twilight images<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blind-magazine.com\/news\/imagesingulieres-the-art-of-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8212; Festival for documentary photography<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blind-magazine.com\/news\/inside-italian-psychiatric-prisons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8212; Italian psychiatric hospitals<\/a> The images are not particularly striking, but the story is interesting and the photojournalism is good.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Post-Processing<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KWJbqxOfDJo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8212; Colin Smith of PhotoshopCAFE: How to create and use textures<\/a> I always wondered how textures were different from just a single layer file.  It&#8217;s a pattern!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=akn2obdQbbg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8212; Dealing with difficult selections<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e8YftP1M3n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8212; Sean Tucker: Creating dramatic BW images<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Field and Studio<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.outdoorphotographer.com\/tips-techniques\/nature-landscapes\/abstract-nature-photography-art-of-mystery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8212; Abstract nature photography<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Miscellaneous<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NFkf5GCNPsg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8212; Ted Forbes talks about the earliest Leicas<\/a> and how they changed photography<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WG6ewaU4lS4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8212; A fun ramble<\/a> If you are reasonably fit!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gD9t7eRQVbA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8212; Is moving from Instagram to Twitter<\/a> more productive for photographers?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8466\" style=\"width: 543px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8466\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/BlueDasher-F_D75_5741.jpg?resize=533%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/BlueDasher-F_D75_5741.jpg?resize=533%2C800&amp;ssl=1 533w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/BlueDasher-F_D75_5741.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/BlueDasher-F_D75_5741.jpg?w=720&amp;ssl=1 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8466\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blue dasher dragonfly, female.  Pachydiplax longipennis.  Black Marsh Trail, North Point State Park.  Very common at this location.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_8468\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8468\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/BlueDasher-M_D755697.jpg?resize=640%2C426&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/BlueDasher-M_D755697.jpg?resize=800%2C533&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/BlueDasher-M_D755697.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/BlueDasher-M_D755697.jpg?w=1080&amp;ssl=1 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8468\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blue Dasher male.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quotes &#8220;It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.&#8221; &#8212; Georgia O&#8217;Keeffe &#8220;That&#8217;s the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.&#8221; -\u2014 Sofia Coppola &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=8384\">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-8384","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-2be","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8384","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=8384"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8471,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8384\/revisions\/8471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}