{"id":252,"date":"2013-01-27T11:19:47","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T11:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jhorrocks.com\/?p=252"},"modified":"2013-01-27T11:19:47","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T11:19:47","slug":"why-it-pays-to-be-a-hoarder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jhorrocks.com\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"Why It Pays To Be A Hoarder"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I have always been a hoarder. I can’t bear to throw anything away, convinced that the moment I throw something away will be the moment that I desperately need it. This applies to my photography as well. I can’t bear to delete images. Disk space is cheap and Lightroom provides such great cataloguing and searching functionality that there seems no reason to throw away pictures. I often find you need time to judge a photograph. Some can be instantly exciting but lose their appeal after a while. Others take time to grow. The above photograph is one such picture. When I took it I was excited by the strong shadows on the rocks and the bright sunlight on the water. I thought it offered a dramatic contrast and I aimed for a mysterious composition but when I came to post processing the image I wasn’t pleased with the result. I didn’t feel I had captured the feeling I was looking for. However I revisited the picture recently and realised that the image I wanted was there, it just needed a different treatment in post processing. I am currently going through a black and white phase and I realised that this image would suit such processing perfectly. A square crop (also another current phase) completed things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have always been a hoarder. I can’t bear to throw anything away, convinced that the moment I throw something away will be the moment that I desperately need it. This applies to my photography as well. I can’t bear to delete images. Disk space is cheap and Lightroom provides such great cataloguing and searching […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jhorrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jhorrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jhorrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jhorrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jhorrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jhorrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254,"href":"https:\/\/www.jhorrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jhorrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jhorrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jhorrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}