{"id":2208,"date":"2016-01-06T20:30:45","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T02:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=2208"},"modified":"2016-01-06T20:30:45","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T02:30:45","slug":"if-at-first-you-dont-succeed-try-110-more-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=2208","title":{"rendered":"If at first you don&#8217;t succeed, try 110 more times."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/24194637276\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"People say we monkey around.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1446\/24194637276_06d332c610_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" alt=\"People say we monkey around.\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s dog challenge was &#8220;too much is not enough.&#8221; I thought about photographing Lucy Peanut with her toys because she does have way too many. Then I got the idea of photographing her with my toys. I have a set of sock monkeys that I keep in a plastic container safely out of LP&#8217;s reach. They are the remains of a once and future photo project. Risky business, giving them to a puppy. I was afraid she would rip them to shreds before I could take a single shot. I knew that she was unlikely to sit still enough for a good shot, but I still lived in hope. I put the sock monkey&#8217;s on the couch, and Lucy Peanut followed. She was so excited. She went after first one and then another. I took 111 photos, and the one shown here is the closest I could get to something decent. She did not sit still for more than a fraction of a second at a time.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, yes, I do know that I could have increased the shutter speed to try to capture her in action, but I didn&#8217;t want to do that because I was in a fairly low light situation, and I would have had to have kicked the ISO way up to increase the shutter speed, which would have meant grainy pictures, so I didn&#8217;t go with that option.<\/p>\n<p>This is my example of why I am not a professional photographer. It is also my example of how I end up taking some nice shots anyway sometimes. I try and try and try. That&#8217;s the whole story.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it works out, and sometimes it doesn&#8217;t. Sometimes I change my whole plan and take a another 111 shots. <\/p>\n<p>Today, I did not get what I wanted, but I decided I would have to make the most of it, and that&#8217;s okay too.<\/p>\n<p>My other shots for today:<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/23850711689\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Alice is feeling forceful.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1679\/23850711689_4851a9e1d6_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" alt=\"Alice is feeling forceful.\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This was taken in my office. I used a sticky strip to make the light saber stand up, and I set Alice beside it. This shot serves no purpose except to amuse me, and I&#8217;ve decided that my own amusement is an important goal for my photography.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/23590226924\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"19-21\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1684\/23590226924_dc9e245363_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" alt=\"19-21\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This was also taken in my office. I worked on school stuff until about 3:00, and then I used my office for a playroom. I folded my three paper cranes for the day and paired them with a little flamingo bobble-head. One should always keep bobble-heads in the office for just such an occasion. <\/p>\n<p>Because I&#8217;ve just moved to a new office, my desk is clean. It is a big wooden desk that has a glass covering across the top. The glass created the reflection. <\/p>\n<p>This is why I love photography. I don&#8217;t always know what I&#8217;m going to get until I start playing around with it. I didn&#8217;t see the reflection until I looked at the scene through the viewfinder. Once I did that, I knew that I was entering a little magical make-believe world that I had somehow created right there on my desk. These little magical worlds are everywhere, but we don&#8217;t see them until we start trying to capture them. <\/p>\n<p>Lesson of the day:<\/p>\n<p>If at first you don&#8217;t succeed, try 110 more times. Once you get it right, no one will know how many failures you left in your wake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s dog challenge was &#8220;too much is not enough.&#8221; I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,95,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1000-paper-cranes","category-project-sharon","category-the-daily-happensnap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}