{"id":379,"date":"2007-02-11T16:20:04","date_gmt":"2007-02-11T23:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2007\/02\/11\/great-pictures-you-must-have-an-expensive-camera\/"},"modified":"2013-12-14T09:20:34","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T16:20:34","slug":"great-pictures-you-must-have-an-expensive-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2007\/02\/11\/great-pictures-you-must-have-an-expensive-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"Great pictures!  You must have an expensive camera."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>And Shakespeare had an expensive pen.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what I heard when a friend (?) was looking at some of my photos on the wall the other day and I confess it&#8217;s not the first time I have heard this sort of silliness.  (Not the &#8216;Great pictures&#8217; bit &#8211; I can live with that).<\/p>\n<p>And while I continue to maintain that good gear makes a good photographer better, it will never save a bad one.<\/p>\n<p>Well, this time I did respond with the Shakespeare crack but it was lost on my audience, which probably begs the question why I was showing this person my snaps in the first place.  Then again, you cannot control your audience, and I suppose all publicity is good.<\/p>\n<p>Great car.  You must be a great driver.<\/p>\n<p>Great woman.  You must be a great lover.<\/p>\n<p>Great kitchen.  You must be a fabulous cook.<\/p>\n<p>Oh! dear&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/Peeking.jpg\" width=\"681\" height=\"1014\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Peeking.  Canon 5D, 24-105mmL zoom.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And Shakespeare had an expensive pen. That&#8217;s what I heard when a friend (?) was looking at some of my photos on the wall the other day and I confess it&#8217;s not the first time I have heard this sort of silliness. (Not the &#8216;Great pictures&#8217; bit &#8211; I can live with that). And while &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2007\/02\/11\/great-pictures-you-must-have-an-expensive-camera\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Great pictures!  You must have an expensive camera.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26040,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/26040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}