{"id":14230,"date":"2017-06-17T09:22:56","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T16:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettiesworld.com\/?p=14230"},"modified":"2017-07-24T15:55:22","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T22:55:22","slug":"all-hail-the-graduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/?p=14230","title":{"rendered":"All Hail the Graduates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been slowly learning my craft as a photographer over the last several years, discovering what I like to see in a photo, learning a little about composition, learning a little about how to transform my photos into an artistic expression with Photoshop, and delighting in seeing growth in my current favorite medium. So it is gratifying when, even though I am the furthest thing from a professional, someone requests that I do a photo shoot. I can honestly say it is rare that I feel comfortable enough to do something like this, but when I know my subjects well enough, it works. When the family approached me to do graduation photos for Monica and Sarah, I felt a familiar twinge of doubt, but I shoved it aside and said yes. I&#8217;m so glad I did &#8211; we had a wonderful time walking around downtown, and I love how the pics turned out. They are lovely girls and it was a joy to let their beauty and personalities shine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been slowly learning my craft as a photographer over the last several years, discovering what I like to see in a photo, learning a little about composition, learning a little about how to transform my photos into an artistic expression with Photoshop, and delighting in seeing growth in my current favorite medium. So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,598,156,351],"tags":[390,585,341,586,34],"class_list":["post-14230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-netties-world","category-photography-art","category-portraits","tag-art","tag-downtown","tag-graduation","tag-graduation-photos","tag-photography-2","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14230"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17004,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14230\/revisions\/17004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}