{"id":141,"date":"2014-05-19T19:37:59","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T19:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jacqueswalker.com\/blog\/?page_id=141"},"modified":"2019-02-18T19:45:32","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T00:45:32","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jacqueswalker.com\/blog\/introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>My name is Jacques Walker and at best I&#8217;m an amateur photographer. &nbsp;With that in mind, this site isn&#8217;t a&nbsp; showcase of my photography skills, but more of a time-line of my improvement in this area.&nbsp; As you&#8217;ll see, I used to think that I was a &#8220;good&#8221; photographer.&nbsp; I knew how to use the camera controls and fiddle around with them until the picture came out how I thought it should look.&nbsp; However, after I began reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sony-NEX-6-Snapshots-Great-Shots\/dp\/0321906217\">NEX-6: From snapshots to great shots<\/a>,&nbsp; I realized that my skills were purely mediocre.&nbsp; I lacked the knowledge of what I was actually changing and why it made things appear&nbsp;the way they did.<\/p>\n<p>I could take pictures, but like many others, they weren&#8217;t photos.&nbsp; I consider a picture to be something that&#8217;s recorded in the blink of an eye; however, a photo is more than that, it captures emotions, guides viewers, and inspires action.&nbsp; From here on out, they&#8217;ll be little words as each image will speak for itself without explanation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, My name is Jacques Walker and at best I&#8217;m an amateur photographer. &nbsp;With that in mind, this site isn&#8217;t a&nbsp; showcase of my photography skills, but more of a time-line of my improvement in this area.&nbsp; As you&#8217;ll see, I used to think that I was a &#8220;good&#8221; photographer.&nbsp; I knew how to use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jacqueswalker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jacqueswalker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jacqueswalker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacqueswalker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacqueswalker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacqueswalker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacqueswalker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/141\/revisions\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jacqueswalker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}