{"id":32002,"date":"2026-01-01T05:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T11:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/?p=32002"},"modified":"2026-01-03T09:26:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T15:26:28","slug":"2026-a-new-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/2026\/01\/2026-a-new-season\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 &#8211; A New Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 160px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">I\u2019m sure it comes as no surprise that I love photography, but it may come as a surprise that I don\u2019t enjoy posting it &#8211; posting images seems like labor, but capturing and editing feels like creativity. Maybe it\u2019s the planning, organization, and interfaces; maybe it\u2019s the time, formatting, or potential distractions; or maybe its the fact that I\u2019d simply rather be doing something else \u2026 like taking more photos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 160px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">But over the twenty plus years of enjoying photography, photography from an artistic standpoint has become so much more interesting. Over the past five years, I have searched for new inspiration with my photography, but when I searched online, most of what I found in photography blogs, YouTube, and even many photographers is chatter about gear, technology, and software. While each of those can help with creating a better image, none of that will make you a better photographer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 160px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">As I talk with other artists and photographers, I find myself drawn to conversations about creativity and inspiration. These are not easy topics for my analytical brain to grasp; I struggle with answering the question \u201cwhy do you like that photo?\u201d and I tend to review the image from a technical level.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">But I\u2019m working on developing that skill, exercising that muscle, learning that vocabulary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 160px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">For 15 years, photographic success for me was posting an image each day on my website &#8211; an image that I like and wanted to share. But for me that\u2019s no longer photographic success. I want to share my artistic journey; not merely my photos, but why and how I capture those images, and what I\u2019ve learned along the way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 160px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Here\u2019s to a new season.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>creativity &#038; inspiration <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[675],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32003,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32002\/revisions\/32003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}