{"id":68,"date":"2010-07-06T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/a2nh.com\/blog\/?p=68"},"modified":"2010-07-06T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T11:15:00","slug":"why-so-serious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.a2nh.com\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"Why so serious?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/analox\/4767662166\/\" title=\"Black n White by analox &#038; admir\u00e9, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Black n White\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4138\/4767662166_c3d7be6dd8.jpg?resize=375%2C500\" width=\"375\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Why are you so serious about making photographs?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Big spending on buying expensive camera gears, carrying your camera on daily basic, working early or very late to just get a \u201cnice\u201d picture are some examples for what I mean by being \u201cserious\u201d. But why?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Simple and common reason for many of us (I guess) is <i>passion<\/i>, or happiness and even being proud of ourselves when creating an \u201c<i>art<\/i>\u201d work. The reason may simply be your friends\u2019 smiles when viewing their photographs taken by you. Photography goes further to the act of defining your identity and relevancy to others. <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But \u201cART\u201d is a dangerous word, because it is hard to find a clear and agreeable definition. Your photo may be a nice piece to you, but others don\u2019t think so. You either listen to them or think \u201cThis is my way. You just don\u2019t understand\u201d.\u00a0 But as time goes by, sadly, ART is fed by \u201cappreciation\u201d and \u201crecognition\u201d, or in other words, other\u2019s opinions (this is an arguable point, I know). There will be a time when ART hungers and you are back to the point of asking \u201cWhy so serious?\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><i>Money<\/i> will certainly come as a reason sometimes. As I once discussed with a friend, there is a time when your hobby becomes a burden. Nevertheless, I still think that money should not be a main reason behind all of this \u201cseriousness\u201d. We don\u2019t make photos only for money, but some \u201ctoken of appreciation\u201d would be good :D.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It probably goes to the inner need of expressing your thoughts, your curiosity and further, your <i>vision<\/i>. It\u2019s like writing a diary. But when it all comes to your inner mind or your \u201cdiary\u201d, it\u2019s even more often to ask the question of \u201cwhy so serious\u201d. A diary for displaying, isn\u2019t it interesting?<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>The question comes and goes along the journey. Just a point to wonder&#8230; Have it ever come across your mind?<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/analox\/4767023563\/\" title=\"Black n White by analox &#038; admir\u00e9, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Black n White\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4120\/4767023563_63526deca9.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><i>Analox<\/i><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Ps: The photos in this post (which is not so relating to the content) were taken on my last week in Offenbach, along the River Main. Blending 2 exposures, by Olympus E620 and 12-60mm SWD.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why are you so serious about making photographs? Big spending on buying expensive camera gears, carrying your camera on daily basic, working early or very late to just get a \u201cnice\u201d picture are some examples for what I mean by being \u201cserious\u201d. But why? Simple and common reason for many of us (I guess) is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Crqa-16","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.a2nh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.a2nh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.a2nh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a2nh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a2nh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a2nh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.a2nh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a2nh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.a2nh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}