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First question:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do your photos bring you joy?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
For example, when you look at your own photos, do they make you smile?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do your photos impress you?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Palo Alto, 2019 #cindyproject<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n Another question:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When you look at your own photos, do they impress you from a compositional perspective?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Do your photos spark wonderful memories from the past?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Osaka, 2018 #cindyproject<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n Many of my photos serve a personally sentimental purpose. I look back at my old photos and smile, and go:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Oh I totally forgot I went there, or did that!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Photography as personal snapshots, to spark wonderful memories of your past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In praise of making photos for yourself:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":195367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/cindy-home-living-room-.jpg?fit=2224%2C1668&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195428"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195437,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195428\/revisions\/195437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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