{"id":1175,"date":"2008-08-27T19:41:41","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T23:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2008-08-27T19:42:22","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T23:42:22","slug":"on-taking-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/08\/27\/on-taking-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"On Taking Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/08\/27\/photographing-the-sc.html\">post over at Boing Boing<\/a> pointed me toward this very Utata post on the joy of shooting in natural history museums.\u00c2\u00a0 Full of really great stuff &#8211; who *hasn&#8217;t* thought of what it would be like if it were humans all preserved in the jars by a smarter species? And then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utata.org\/articles\/\/feature\/20765.php\">came upon this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I try to look as much as I can, and when I have looked until I have seen, I take out my camera.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That, in a nutshell, is my ideal approach to photography.\u00c2\u00a0 I can list the regrets of all the times I&#8217;ve not been able to follow this.\u00c2\u00a0 And I have no regrets from the times that I have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post over at Boing Boing pointed me toward this very Utata post on the joy of shooting in natural history museums.\u00c2\u00a0 Full of really great stuff &#8211; who *hasn&#8217;t* thought of what it would be like if it were humans all preserved in the jars by a smarter species? And then came upon this: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}