{"id":828,"date":"2012-07-08T09:39:23","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T14:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2012\/07\/08\/120708-photoperspective\/"},"modified":"2022-03-10T20:10:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T02:10:58","slug":"120708-photoperspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2012\/07\/08\/120708-photoperspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographic Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The greatest aspect of digital photography is the way it reintroduced the concept of play in picture-taking. When you don&#8217;t have to worry about the cost of film or development, it frees you up to just have fun, and to experiment with different techniques.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t do it nearly often enough, but one of the things I enjoy most about photography is taking the camera outside and pointing it in odd angles at mundane subjects, without looking through the viewfinder (which would be impossible most of the time anyway), and being surprised at what ends up in the photo. The different perspectives sometimes yield delightful results. Here are a handful of pictures I took yesterday in our back yard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; margin-bottom: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/perspective_lime.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Mexican Lime\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: .9em;\">A Mexican Lime on our back porch<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; margin-bottom: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/perspective_vitex.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Vitex bloom\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: .9em;\">A Vitex bloom, slightly past its prime<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; margin-bottom: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/perspective_armadillo.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Metal armadillo\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: .9em;\">The armadillo that stands vigil over our side yard<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; margin-bottom: 3px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/perspective_desertwillow.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Desert willow\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: .9em;\">The delicate beauty of a desert willow flower<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; margin-bottom: 3px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/perspective_burro.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Metal burrow\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: .9em;\">A burro, yearning to fly<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc; margin-bottom: 3px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/perspective_roadrunner.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Metal roadrunner\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: .9em;\">A Mexican Elder towers over a stoic chaparral<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The greatest aspect of digital photography is the way it reintroduced the concept of play in picture-taking. When you don&#8217;t have to worry about the cost of film or development, it frees you up to just have fun, and to experiment with different techniques. I don&#8217;t do it nearly often enough, but one of the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2012\/07\/08\/120708-photoperspective\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Photographic Perspective<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midland-odessa","category-photography","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8481,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/8481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}