{"id":329,"date":"2009-12-06T00:14:50","date_gmt":"2009-12-06T05:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/?p=329"},"modified":"2009-12-06T00:14:50","modified_gmt":"2009-12-06T05:14:50","slug":"the-year-in-portraits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/?p=329","title":{"rendered":"The Year in Portraits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been getting increasingly more serious about photography over the last two years, and I&#8217;m not just talking about the expense of my equipment.  \ud83d\ude42  I&#8217;ve started reading photography books and blogs, and have gradually discovered I have real passion for portraiture.  Perhaps it&#8217;s just a new outlet for creativity (since it&#8217;s been essentially impossible to write theater music since the kids were born)&#8230; but I also harbor a secret fantasy of becoming professional someday, perhaps when I retire.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, I went through the last year (or two years, really), and pulled out my favorite portraits into a single album.  I&#8217;ve organized them into roughly four categories:  pets, kids, family, and friends.  I think you&#8217;ll enjoy this collection;  there&#8217;s definitely an emergent style in there somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Click to view.  I recommend choosing &#8216;slideshow&#8217;:<\/p>\n<table style=\"width:194px;\">\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" style=\"height:194px;background:url(http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/s\/c\/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/sussman\/FavoritePortraits?feat=embedwebsite\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_2roxcP1oE-k\/SxszqmeardE\/AAAAAAAAD0M\/TKeREoDTd9s\/s160-c\/FavoritePortraits.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" style=\"margin:1px 0 0 4px;\"\/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align:center;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/sussman\/FavoritePortraits?feat=embedwebsite\" style=\"color:#4D4D4D;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;\">Favorite Portraits<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been getting increasingly more serious about photography over the last two years, and I&#8217;m not just talking about the expense of my equipment. \ud83d\ude42 I&#8217;ve started reading photography books and blogs, and have gradually discovered I have real passion for portraiture. Perhaps it&#8217;s just a new outlet for creativity (since it&#8217;s been essentially impossible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}