{"id":191,"date":"2008-12-09T10:15:40","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T15:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/09\/177-wise-photo-quotes-continued\/"},"modified":"2022-05-29T08:21:07","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T13:21:07","slug":"177-wise-photo-quotes-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/09\/177-wise-photo-quotes-continued\/","title":{"rendered":"#177 Wise Photo Quotes, continued"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/09\/177-wise-photo-quotes-continued\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Today we offer the final installment of responses to \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/newsletter\/Wise_words_from_working_photographers_article.htm\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.harrynowell.com%2Fnewsletter%2FWise_words_from_working_photographers_article.htm','Exposed%21+Photography+Newsletter')\" title=\"Exposed! Photography Newsletter\">Wise Words from Working Photographers.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This quote comes via the interent from another Chris &#8211; he includes a link to a comic to make his fine point:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The best photo-related quote that I have heard &#8211; by far &#8211; comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mac.com\/aaronandpatty\/What_the_Duck\/WTD_2006-2007.html#94\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fweb.mac.com%2Faaronandpatty%2FWhat_the_Duck%2FWTD_2006-2007.html%2394','What+The+Duck')\" the target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What The Duck<\/a> &#8211; a comic.<\/p>\n<p>I imagine this is a variation on the story of a photographer at dinner whose host says &#8220;<strong><em>I love your pictures. You must have a really nice camera<\/em><\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>The photographer responds by saying &#8220;<strong>Dinner was great. You must have really nice pots and pans.<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I think it nicely illustrates the point that the <strong><em>most important part of taking a picture is the person behind the camera<\/em><\/strong>. As photographers, it is good to be reminded of this and not get too carried away with lusting after new gear.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<br \/>\n-Chris&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.HarryNowell.com\/Photo\/blog\/Dogs.jpg\" alt=\"Dogs\" height=\"201\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Poodle Photographed by Harry, assisted by the camera. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thanks Chris &#8211; well said!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Today we offer the final installment of responses to \u201cWise Words from Working Photographers.\u201d This quote comes via the interent from another Chris &#8211; he includes a link to a comic to make his fine point: &#8220;The best photo-related <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/09\/177-wise-photo-quotes-continued\/\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.harrynowell.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F12%2F09%2F177-wise-photo-quotes-continued%2F','Continue+reading+%26rarr%3B')\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6,47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6706,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/6706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}