{"id":551,"date":"2006-10-17T13:44:01","date_gmt":"2006-10-17T18:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=551"},"modified":"2006-10-17T13:44:01","modified_gmt":"2006-10-17T18:44:01","slug":"like-a-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2006\/10\/17\/like-a-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"Like a picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You ever have one of those days when everything you see looks like a picture?\u00c2\u00a0 Like every scene appears framed, with perfect light?\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s the flat gray light outside today, or that I just finished reading a <a title=\"XTi\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dpreview.com\/reviews\/canoneos400d\/\">review <\/a>of Canon&#8217;s latest DSLR.\u00c2\u00a0 Whatever the reason, today has me thinking that I&#8217;m not taking enough pictures recently.<\/p>\n<p>Last night I imported all the pictures on my HDD into iPhoto.\u00c2\u00a0 There are over 10 thousand of them going back to when I was born, and beyond.\u00c2\u00a0 I have to get busy tagging and organizing, <em>pronto<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I miss having time to walk through the world with an eye toward the photographic.\u00c2\u00a0 Weekday mornings are pretty hectic, else I&#8217;d take the 30 minutes required to walk into work and collect some shots then.\u00c2\u00a0 Weekend mornings are more laid back, and I do manage to get <a title=\"dorm\" href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/heet_myser\/261799410\/\">some <\/a><a title=\"leaves\" href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/heet_myser\/261800414\/in\/photostream\/\">pictures <\/a><a title=\"sun\" href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/heet_myser\/260242856\/\">then<\/a>, but it&#8217;d be great to get out on my own for a couple hours and just fill my CF card.<\/p>\n<p>Fall is a great time to take pictures around here, and not because the trees become so brilliant (though that&#8217;s a good reason).\u00c2\u00a0 I love taking pictures of waning things, things that are spent, used up.\u00c2\u00a0 Their lines and wrinkles and bends evoke a consideration of where they&#8217;ve been.\u00c2\u00a0 From a purely aesthetic view, there&#8217;s a lot more for the light to work with on.\u00c2\u00a0 <a title=\"dead\" href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/heet_myser\/766189\/in\/set-232851\/\">Por ejemplo<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s not that I don&#8217;t like photographing things <a title=\"stamen\" href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/heet_myser\/891708\/in\/set-232851\/\">in bloom<\/a>; 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