{"id":6551,"date":"2012-01-21T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=6551"},"modified":"2012-01-21T09:30:42","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T14:30:42","slug":"this-week-in-pictures-in-which-i-am-the-icon-of-the-downfall-of-modern-photography-no-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2012\/01\/21\/this-week-in-pictures-in-which-i-am-the-icon-of-the-downfall-of-modern-photography-no-really\/","title":{"rendered":"This week in pictures: in which I am the icon of the downfall of modern photography (no, really!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

M<\/span>y friend Heather thinks I owe you a retraction. Remember this post<\/a>, where I congratulated myself for my level-headedness and maturity in managing to pull myself out of a frenzy of consumeristic covetousness and NOT impulse-buy a new iPhone 4S? She thinks I owe you a retraction because I went out and actually did buy the new iPhone four days later. I think I deserve a medal for waiting for four whole days. And pro haggler that I am, I managed to wrangle a deal on my data plan so that I’m actually paying less per month for wireless than I was for our ancient non-data-plan Krazr, so we’ll save the price of the new iPhone in about a year and a half. Yay!<\/p>\n

And oh my sweet lord, what a treat is the new iPhone 4S! I have only barely begun to figure out the voice-activated Siri stuff, but the camera? Wow! Well here, don’t let me tell you — let me show you!<\/p>\n

“Hey, look Willie! Mom got a new iPhone!”<\/p>\n

\"Hey<\/a><\/p>\n

I went out for a drive on Sunday to take some pictures and started playing with Hipstamatic, an app I’ve had on my iPhone for more than a year but never warmed to. I’m kinda digging it now! (Do you like the digital sticky tape holding the collage together? I added that in Photoshop.)<\/p>\n

\"Vignettes<\/a><\/p>\n

This was the view from my office window when the sun hit an icy tree on Sussex Drive, also via Hipstamatic.<\/p>\n

\"Ice<\/a><\/p>\n

And this one is straight-up out of the iPhone, no app required. (I have been coveting a wide-angle lens for my Nikon so I can do this kind of big-nose distortion, but the iPhone’s angle of view is just wide enough to satisfy my creative urge for now!)<\/p>\n

\"Katie\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And speaking of the Nikon, I didn’t abandon it entirely this week. I’m glad I had it with me on Monday when this spectacular sunrise lit up the sky over the Byward Market. No colour enhancement on this one, I just pointed my camera and clicked.<\/p>\n

\"Urban<\/a><\/p>\n

You might have seen this one in my post yesterday. It’s something I’ve been thinking about for a while, but only recently had enough skill to be able to make it come out like I planned in my head. The text is actually added after the fact in Photoshop, which means I can put up just about any message I want. I’m thinking it might make a fun new blog header one of these days.<\/p>\n

\"Mommyblogger\"<\/a><\/p>\n

As I said on Flickr, stand by for the “I am so much more than just a mom with a camera” version. \ud83d\ude09 Speaking of which, I’ve made a few allusions recently to Internet drama. I thought you guys would get a kick out of this. I got tangled up in a war of words on a Flickr forum recently with Ottawa photographer Paul Couvrette<\/a>, who called me a “mamarazzi” and criticized me for (among other things) undercharging for prints and making my pictures available online. While the criticism stung at the time, especially since it was more or less unprovoked and definitely overly vicious and personal, the apology he later posted was laugh-out-loud funny. I had no idea at the time, but apparently he had “personified [Dani] as an icon of the ill direction towards which I believe photography may well be headed.” Nice, eh? I’ve never been called an icon of anything, let alone the downfall of an entire industry. And I thought I was just taking pictures because it made me happy. So if I hike my prices next year, you can blame Paul Couvrette. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Mostly, though? I still just love taking pictures.<\/p>\n

\"Pear<\/a><\/p>\n

And hey, this made me feel a lot better. I got my Getty Images sales statement at the end of the week, and this picture from October apparently ran in the Wall Street Journal<\/em> during December.<\/p>\n

\"304:365<\/a><\/p>\n

And this picture of Willie was bought by a company that makes greeting cards and calendars with titles like “Napping Cats of 2012.”<\/p>\n

\"262:365<\/a><\/p>\n

Hmmm, can you guess which one I’ll be adding to my “as seen in” portfolio? I mean, the WSJ is great, but the Napping Cats of 2012 calendar? Does it get more prestigious than that?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My friend Heather thinks I owe you a retraction. Remember this post, where I congratulated myself for my level-headedness and maturity in managing to pull myself out of a frenzy of consumeristic covetousness and NOT impulse-buy a new iPhone 4S? She thinks I owe you a retraction because I went out and actually did buy … Continue reading “This week in pictures: in which I am the icon of the downfall of modern photography (no, really!)”<\/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-6551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6551","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=6551"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6555,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6551\/revisions\/6555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}