{"id":1154,"date":"2008-01-16T13:00:10","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T18:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2008-01-16T13:00:10","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T18:00:10","slug":"new-photography-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2008\/01\/16\/new-photography-project\/","title":{"rendered":"New photography project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s nothing like a trip to a foreign land with a camera in your hand to get you thinking more broadly about photography.  It&#8217;s not like I need another excuse to shoot, but it would be nice to have some structure to my endeavor.<\/p>\n<p>I have friends who&#8217;ve undertaken the now-(in)famous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/aprille\/sets\/72157594456802943\/\">365 days of portraits<\/a> project on Flickr, but I&#8217;m not interested in being tied to that kind of schedule.  My thought, which struck me this morning as I brushed my teeth in front of the mirror, was that the ordinary deserves a place in all this picture taking.  That idea is at the heart of the 365 day theme, but the spirit there is a bit different.<\/p>\n<p>My plan is to take four shots of one subject each day, one in color and one in B&#038;W, with each of my two lenses.  The focus will be on ordinary objects, those things I see every day but pass by because of familiarity.  What are the visual qualities of those things, and does a photograph either heighten or diminish an item&#8217;s stature?<\/p>\n<p>I took a lot of pictures of ordinary things as I walked the streets of Isla Mujeres, and when I came home, I found myself looking differently at the ordinary things in my own world.  So I&#8217;ll create a set on Flickr to hold these new shots and hope <a href=\"http:\/\/valleywag.com\/345381\/flickrs-big-failure\">the servers don&#8217;t crash<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s nothing like a trip to a foreign land with a camera in your hand to get you thinking more broadly about photography. It&#8217;s not like I need another excuse to shoot, but it would be nice to have some structure to my endeavor. I have friends who&#8217;ve undertaken the now-(in)famous 365 days of portraits [&hellip;]<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-iC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}