{"id":2068,"date":"2010-01-20T21:49:28","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T21:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=2068"},"modified":"2010-07-24T17:11:46","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T22:11:46","slug":"the-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=2068","title":{"rendered":"the chase"},"content":{"rendered":"

we all chase something
\nchoosing what, when and where to chase
\nmakes all difference<\/p>\n

May we chase and capture that which makes a positive difference in the world in 2010.<\/p>\n

“The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel cage <\/span>chase<\/em><\/strong><\/span> from new lens to new paper to new developer to new gadget, never staying with one piece of equipment long enough to learn its full capacities, becoming lost in a maze of technical information that is of little or no use since they don’t know what to do with it.”<\/span> \u2014\u00a0Edward Weston<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

“This is where the artist comes in, arranging in a frame the scattered elements into a story, anticipating and <\/span>chasing<\/em><\/strong><\/span> the light, bringing it all together to create an evocative image capable of communicating the visual experience\u2026 .<\/span> \u2014\u00a0Guy Tal<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

(click image for larger view)<\/p>\n

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Leica R8\/DMR, 100mm Apo Macro Elmarit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

we all chase something choosing what, when and where to chase makes all difference May we chase and capture that which makes a positive difference in the world in 2010. “The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[3,51,48,19,33,17,18,36,29,39,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-thoughts","category-documentary","category-haiku","category-hand-made","category-natural-world","category-photography","category-poetry","category-sculptural-forms","category-self-expression","category-things","category-up-close","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2068"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3009,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions\/3009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}