{"id":1963,"date":"2009-04-06T12:35:17","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T17:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=1963"},"modified":"2009-04-06T14:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T19:03:00","slug":"explored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2009\/04\/06\/explored\/","title":{"rendered":"Explored!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2009\/04\/03\/project-365-confessions-of-a-praise-junkie\/\">way back on Friday<\/a>, when I wrote that post talking about how I&#8217;d finally given my head a shake and stopped worrying about having Flickr acknowledge the merits of my photographs with it&#8217;s &#8220;Explore&#8221; feature?<\/p>\n<p>Snicker.<\/p>\n<p>About 22 hours after I wrote that post, I snapped this photograph:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/3414452508\/\" title=\"75:365 Rainy bokeh by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3570\/3414452508_8d6e0d8aba.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"258\" alt=\"75:365 Rainy bokeh\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And guess what?  It got Explored!  That means Flickr recognized it as one of the 500 most interesting photographs posted on April 5.  Since Flickr gets about 6500 new photos every <em>minute<\/em>, I&#8217;m pretty excited.  Lookit, here&#8217;s my souvenir poster!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/3417582807\/\" title=\"My first Explore! by Dani_Girl, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3307\/3417582807_43d74f2e8c.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"143\" alt=\"My first Explore!\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I noted on the photograph&#8217;s page, some times you spend hours setting up a shot and taking 150 microscopically different versions, spend more hours tweaking and fixing and adjusting in photoshop, and you still have a very ordinary photograph.  And some days, you plunk the tripod on the porch and balance the baby on your hip to snap a couple of images with one hand while trying to keep all three of you (you, the baby and the camera) out of the rain, and it&#8217;s a work of art.  Go figure!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember way back on Friday, when I wrote that post talking about how I&#8217;d finally given my head a shake and stopped worrying about having Flickr acknowledge the merits of my photographs with it&#8217;s &#8220;Explore&#8221; feature? Snicker. About 22 hours after I wrote that post, I snapped this photograph: And guess what? It got Explored! &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2009\/04\/06\/explored\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Explored!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1963"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1966,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions\/1966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}