{"id":674,"date":"2008-04-17T07:52:01","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T14:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2008\/04\/17\/themes-have-their-uses\/"},"modified":"2009-11-05T21:09:03","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T04:09:03","slug":"themes-have-their-uses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2008\/04\/17\/themes-have-their-uses\/","title":{"rendered":"Themes have their uses"},"content":{"rendered":"

A thematic approach blends discipline and goals<\/i>.<\/p>\n

A goal oriented life may not be a happy-go-lucky carefree one, but it is consonant with success.<\/p>\n

I have found this to be as true of photography as it is of any other field of human endeavor. Love, money, possessions, family – all benefit from goal setting.<\/p>\n

The photographic high point of 2007 was, for me, my one man show<\/a> at a local winery. As a result, I have many of the framed pictures from that show hanging on the walls at home – many more were sold to happy buyers. The thematic goal of that show was that it would only include landscapes of subjects within a 50 mile radius of our central California home and, with that theme in mind, it took one year to take and make the pictures for the show.<\/p>\n

Now, one year later, I am getting bored with those pictures. So a new theme has to be decided on and expressed in photographs. I have no idea yet what that should be, but as I am not tied to any particular genre of photography, I will look for something alien to me and bang away to see what comes up. Maybe it will be close-ups. Or night scenes. I have no idea.<\/p>\n

One thing I am quite certain of, however, is this. No goal means no results. Just wafting about in the hope of capturing a good snap now and then is a waste of time – one of the biggest knocks against that old saying “always carry a camera”. <\/p>\n

And no deadlines guarantees no results, goals or not. So I need to get this done by the end of the year.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Moonstone Beach, CA at low tide. Mamiya 6, 75mm, Kodak Portra. A direct result of thematic goal setting.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A thematic approach blends discipline and goals. A goal oriented life may not be a happy-go-lucky carefree one, but it is consonant with success. I have found this to be as true of photography as it is of any other field of human endeavor. Love, money, possessions, family – all benefit from goal setting. The … Continue reading Themes have their uses<\/span> →<\/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-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","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=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3800,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/3800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}