{"id":3853,"date":"2019-02-02T11:25:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T10:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/?p=3853"},"modified":"2019-02-10T22:07:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T21:07:06","slug":"why-did-i-make-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/archives\/3853","title":{"rendered":"Why did I make this?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"694\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Botanics-2-694x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3854\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Botanics-2-694x1024.jpg 694w, https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Botanics-2-434x640.jpg 434w, https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Botanics-2-768x1133.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Botanics-2.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 694px) 100vw, 694px\" \/><figcaption>Winter sun on glass at the Botanics<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I continuously wrestle with why the hell I want to make images. Sure a hell of a lot of it is a fascination with the process. I like the technology. Not the modern pixel peaking type so much as the physical side of traditional photography. But then I&#8217;m sitting at the breakfast table wondering what I&#8217;ll photograph and having no inspiration having spent hours watching blokes (they are always blokes) doing landscape photography on YouTube and making what I can only think of as &#8220;product&#8221;. Some of it is very beautiful. Some of it is clich\u00e9. Some clich\u00e9 but very beautiful. Some just an awful  technicolor yawn. And I feel I really don&#8217;t want to bring more of this into the world and because I&#8217;m not authentically motivated in that direction I probably couldn&#8217;t even do it if I tried. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then I make a photo like the one above and it gives me a kick. So that is what I&#8217;m going to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I continuously wrestle with why the hell I want to make images. Sure a hell of a lot of it is a fascination with the process. I like the technology. Not the modern pixel peaking type so much as the physical side of traditional photography. But then I&#8217;m sitting at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3855,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853\/revisions\/3855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}