{"id":377,"date":"2010-10-01T13:01:10","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T17:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/?p=377"},"modified":"2010-10-01T13:01:10","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T17:01:10","slug":"lack-of-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/2010\/10\/01\/lack-of-inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"Lack of Inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes a place just doesn&#8217;t talk to me. I&#8217;m never sure in these cases whether I&#8217;m just having an off day, or if the place is just not photogenic. Maybe the light is not matching up with the subjects I&#8217;m thinking of, maybe things are great but I just can&#8217;t see them. I still take photos, and work that much harder to try to get a good photo, but in the end I still feel let down. Ironically, some of my better images come from these outings, but I usually don&#8217;t find them until I&#8217;ve had a chance to distance myself from the experience.<\/p>\n<p>Last week I went out to <a href=\"http:\/\/travelsandtrails.com\/place.php?place_id=101\">Ministik Bird Sanctuary<\/a>. I&#8217;ve been there a few times before, but this time I tried a new access point (it is a pretty huge area) recommended to me by a friend. I had a good hike, but struggled with the photos. As it turns out, you don&#8217;t have to be inspired to take photos.<\/p>\n<p>ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<br \/>\nngg_shortcode_1_placeholder<br \/>\nngg_shortcode_2_placeholder<br \/>\nngg_shortcode_3_placeholder<br \/>\nngg_shortcode_4_placeholder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes a place just doesn&#8217;t talk to me. I&#8217;m never sure in these cases whether I&#8217;m just having an off day, or if the place is just not photogenic. Maybe the light is not matching up with the subjects I&#8217;m thinking of, maybe things are great but I just can&#8217;t see them. I still take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[739,40,738,729,730],"tags":[1444,801,1443,1450,1445,1446,1447,1448,328,1441,1442,101,1449,1451],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abstract-2","category-composition-photography","category-flowers-2","category-forest-2","category-macro-2","tag-better-images","tag-bird","tag-bird-sanctuary","tag-experience","tag-good-hike","tag-huge-area","tag-inspiration","tag-lack","tag-light","tag-ministik-bird-sanctuary","tag-new-access-point","tag-photos-2","tag-thinking","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}