{"id":178,"date":"2009-02-04T22:17:08","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T06:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/?p=178"},"modified":"2021-09-18T08:54:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T16:54:55","slug":"january-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/2009\/02\/04\/january-reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"January Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nI have certainly hit the ground running this year, at least in terms of photography. I decided to attempt the 2009 Photo Challenge<\/a> so I’ve been taking a lot of photos. I’ve only missed one day so far, which means I’ve posted 34 photos for the challenge alone. I’ve also posted about 40+ other photos to Zooomr<\/a> and Flickr<\/a>. That has to be one my best months ever with about 75 photos in the month.<\/p>\n

I’ve also been very pleased with the quality of the shots I’ve been posting, and several have received a lot of faves and views. While I’d like to think I’m growing as a photographer, I’m certain the 2009 Challenge has helped me improve. In fact, a friend is buying prints of three shots taken specifically for the 2009 Challenge. That will be my first photography sale. I’m also contributing a photo to a fund raising auction for my kids’ school later this month.<\/p>\n

One of the high points of January was my first photowalk with Jeremy Brooks<\/a> and Andrew Lighten<\/a>. I was on a jury in San Francisco and Jeremy and I decided to meet up one evening. It just happened that Andrew flew into SF that day. Hanging out even for a short time with other photographers is very rewarding. Thanks guys. I’m definitely going to make more of an effort to get to other Bay Area photowalks this year.\u00c2\u00a0 This is one of the shots I took on that walk:
\n\"Night<\/a><\/p>\n

January was a good start to the year for me. I know the economy sucks and California is heading into a severe drought, but I’m looking forward to this year. And looking back, this is my favorite shot of the month:
\n\"Day<\/a><\/p>\n

One final thing, I want to give a little promotion to the PhotoNetCast podcast<\/a>. I’ve only recently started listening to this and have really enjoyed it. It’s entertaining and informative. I know everyone listens to TWIP, but you should also listen to PhotoNetCast. Really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have certainly hit the ground running this year, at least in terms of photography. I decided to attempt the 2009 Photo Challenge so I’ve been taking a lot of photos. I’ve only missed one day so far, which means I’ve posted 34 photos for the challenge alone. I’ve also posted about 40+ other photos … Continue reading “January Reflections”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,10,13,12,25,2,32],"tags":[82,65,64,44,63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}