{"id":299961,"date":"2021-02-02T14:19:05","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T19:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=299961"},"modified":"2021-02-02T14:19:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T19:19:34","slug":"why-do-you-photograph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/02\/why-do-you-photograph\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do You Photograph?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why do you photograph and make photos?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I cannot speak for you, but for myself, I make photos for many reasons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-1-artistic-self-expression\">1. Artistic self-expression<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My photography is my primary art work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-2-augmented-living\">2. Augmented living<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I photograph my <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/02\/the-beauty-of-mundane-everyday-moments\/\">everyday life<\/a>, it is like &#8216;augmented living&#8217; which means:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I discover more beauty, joy, and depth in the smallest mundane details of everyday life. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In other words, photography adds *MORE* joy to my everyday life. Isn&#8217;t this the ultimate tool?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-3-fun-and-challenge\">3. Fun and challenge<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For me the upside and joy of photography is the challenge and fun I get from it. For example even photography <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/composition\/\">composition<\/a> is a game:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Given the constraints of a given scene and of my focal length (like a <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/28mm\/\">28mm<\/a> lens), how can I make the most interesting photograph of this given scene?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do you photograph and make photos?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":299723,"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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299961","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\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-1.35.38-PM-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1600&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299961","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=299961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299963,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299961\/revisions\/299963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}