{"id":2594,"date":"2020-03-25T17:40:30","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T17:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/?p=2594"},"modified":"2020-03-25T17:40:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T17:40:39","slug":"when-photographers-are-stuck-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2020\/03\/25\/when-photographers-are-stuck-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"When photographers are stuck at home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/travel\/2020\/03\/these-photos-capture-a-world-paused-by-coronavirus\/\">National Geographic<\/a> just offered an interesting story on the photos taken by their staff when these folks can not travel to do their work. Photography is a great outlet for the creativity in all of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My son and his family have been doing this Instagram activity that has generated quite a bit of participation. I have seen similar things elsewhere and I have no idea where it started. Anyway, my son&#8217;s version is to walk with his family and each family member takes a picture of the same location. The photos are posted to Instagram and followers vote on their favorite as a comment. The popularity is calculated from these choices, a winner is announced, and the winner gets to select the next site to be examined. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1242\" height=\"1237\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_6114.jpg?fit=640%2C638&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_6114.jpg?w=1242&amp;ssl=1 1242w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_6114.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_6114.jpg?resize=1024%2C1020&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_6114.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_6114.jpg?resize=768%2C765&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Me? I listen to podcasts during my daily walks and once in a while I take a photo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1728\" height=\"1296\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_9838.png?fit=640%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_9838.png?w=1728&amp;ssl=1 1728w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_9838.png?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_9838.png?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_9838.png?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_9838.png?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_9838.png?w=1280 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3024\" height=\"4032\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_1376.png?fit=640%2C853&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_1376.png?w=3024&amp;ssl=1 3024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_1376.png?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_1376.png?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_1376.png?resize=1152%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_1376.png?resize=1536%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_1376.png?w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/IMG_1376.png?w=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Geographic just offered an interesting story on the photos taken by their staff when these folks can not travel to do their work. Photography is a great outlet for the creativity in all of us. My son and his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2020\/03\/25\/when-photographers-are-stuck-at-home\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2598,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions\/2598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}