{"id":1413,"date":"2010-11-09T19:39:02","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T03:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/journal\/a-sad-story\/"},"modified":"2019-11-18T20:56:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T04:56:44","slug":"a-sad-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/09\/a-sad-story\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sad Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a couple of years ago when I was shooting in the Columbia River Gorge up in Oregon when a fellow photographer (a stranger, not a friend) laid this stinging remark on me.\u00a0 But let me explain.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We were photographing Bridal Vail falls and a Nikon camera club happened to be there at the same time.\u00a0 Near the falls was one of those plaques that explain the geology, history and whatnot.\u00a0 Standing next to me as I read the plaque was a gal from the camera club.\u00a0 When I finished I headed back to the falls and left her with a friendly, \u201cHave a nice day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And what was her response?\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019ll have a nicer day than you.\u00a0 I\u2019m not shooting a Canon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oh my!\u00a0 Poor kid.<\/p>\n<p>Photography has almost as many religious wars as, well, religion \u2013 or politics.\u00a0 Nikon vs. Canon.\u00a0 Mac vs. PC.\u00a0 Lightroom vs. Photoshop.\u00a0 Film vs. digital.\u00a0 You get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, when you can create two prints from competing sides of an argument, put them side by side and can tell which is which then I\u2019m interested.\u00a0 Otherwise, I could care less.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/workshops\/workshop_home_page.html\" href=\"http:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/workshops\/workshop_home_page.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Join me on an upcoming workshop.\u00a0 Click here for more details.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/RalphNordstromPhotography.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">To see more of my photographs click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"bawpvc-ajax-counter\" data-id=\"1413\"> (572)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a couple of years ago when I was shooting in the Columbia River Gorge up in Oregon when a fellow photographer (a stranger, not a friend) laid this stinging remark on me.\u00a0 But let me explain. (572)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[226,199],"class_list":["post-1413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-phorography","tag-photography-workshops"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Nl7-mN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4607,"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions\/4607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}