{"id":678,"date":"2010-04-30T09:34:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T17:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=678"},"modified":"2010-04-30T09:59:19","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T17:59:19","slug":"looking-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=678","title":{"rendered":"Looking up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/eagleflight2.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"338\" alt=\"[IMAGE] bald eagle\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/eagleflight3.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"348\" alt=\"[IMAGE] bald eagle\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=#4F4E81>&#8230;click to listen:<\/font><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/RealAudio\/ChakraSuite1.mp3\" style=\"text-decoration:none\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/ChakraSuitepg1.html\" style=\"text-decoration:none\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/moregn.jpg\"\/><font color=#4F4E81>&#8230;about the music<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><font color=#346513>Music to glide by.<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure that if anyone watched me just outside my studio, they would have no idea that I&#8217;m a musician, and instead assume that I&#8217;m a photog for National Geographic or something. I am almost never without my Big Camera With The Long Ass Zoom Lens; a paparazzi lying in wait for feathered and pawed celebs that lurk in my &#8216;hood.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, much as those of us with honkin&#8217; digital project studios are always jonesing for the newest, latest hardware and software, well, now I can add to my addiction: I am seriously wanting a Bigger and Even More Long Ass zoom lens. This is just too much fun, especially because I have no clue whatsoever what I&#8217;m doing. I liken myself to a dog dancing on its hind legs: it&#8217;s not that it does it well, but that it can do it at all. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/eagleflight.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"289\" alt=\"[IMAGE] bald eagle\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These are certainly not great shots. I ain&#8217;t gettin&#8217; no naturalist photo gigs out of this point-and-shoot portfolio. But the pleasure I get from stepping outside to the deck or shoreline many times a day and shifting my concentration from all the sonic chaos in my head, to the visual serenity that surrounds me, is the most amazing &#8220;second job&#8221; I could wish for.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/eagleflight4.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"131\" alt=\"[IMAGE] bald eagle\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/blogpix\/eagleflight5.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"131\" alt=\"[IMAGE] bald eagle\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;click to listen: &#8230;about the music Music to glide by. I&#8217;m pretty sure that if anyone watched me just outside my studio, they would have no idea that I&#8217;m a musician, and instead assume that I&#8217;m a photog for National Geographic or something. I am almost never without my Big Camera With The Long Ass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":684,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}