{"id":312,"date":"2009-07-06T10:08:06","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T15:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/06\/296-back-to-work\/"},"modified":"2022-05-29T08:20:26","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T13:20:26","slug":"296-back-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/06\/296-back-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"#296 &#8211; Back to work"},"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\/2009\/07\/06\/296-back-to-work\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I am back in the office with batteries charged. We took a short break and did some small trips including sea kayaking on the Saguenay fjord, cycling, tasting cider and artisanal cheeses.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Cirque Du Soleil<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>We were also tipped off about free performances by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cirquedusoleil.com\/\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cirquedusoleil.com%2F','Cirque+de+Soleil')\" title=\"Cirque de Soleil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cirque du Soleil<\/a><\/strong> in Quebec City to celebrate the circus&#8217; 25th anniversary. The performance was spectacular in many ways including the fact that it all takes place under the cover of an elevated highway.<\/p>\n<p>There was no promotion and no blazing &#8216;Cirque lights&#8217; or marketing &#8211; the show starts and fiishes without any explanation. There is virtually no promotion although thousands of people flocked to the site. I did some web investigation and found nothing on the Cirque web site and just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripadvisor.com\/ShowTopic-g155033-i134-k2894380-Cirque_du_Soleil_s_Chemins_Invisibles_FREE_show-Quebec_City_Quebec.html\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tripadvisor.com%2FShowTopic-g155033-i134-k2894380-Cirque_du_Soleil_s_Chemins_Invisibles_FREE_show-Quebec_City_Quebec.html','Cirque+du+Soleil')\" title=\"Cirque du Soleil\">one review<\/a> that includes information for the summer shows.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Avoiding Burnout<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I do not take much time off but it is critical to a sustainable workflow! I recently encouraged one of our Pro Program students to take some non photo time as burnout was looking a possibility for them.<\/p>\n<p>On this small trip I left any and all photo devices safely at the office. It was good for me. I will also be taking in some of the summer music scene&#8230; for fun.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.HarryNowell.com\/Photo\/blog\/bass.jpg\" alt=\"double bass\" height=\"312\" width=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet I am back in the office with batteries charged. We took a short break and did some small trips including sea kayaking on the Saguenay fjord, cycling, tasting cider and artisanal cheeses. Cirque Du Soleil We were also tipped <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/06\/296-back-to-work\/\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.harrynowell.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F07%2F06%2F296-back-to-work%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],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312"}],"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=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6586,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/6586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}