{"id":323,"date":"2009-01-01T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/?p=323"},"modified":"2008-12-30T16:34:28","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T21:34:28","slug":"happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I started to think about the last year, and what my New Years resolutions might be. So what did I do last year?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I started up the blog again.<\/li>\n<li>Got my first full year of DSLR shooting under my belt<\/li>\n<li>Spent a bazillion (well, to me) on photoshop, but don&#8217;t really know how to use it.<\/li>\n<li>Upgraded my camera to a D90, and promptly stopped taking pictures<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yea, I am not sure what happened. The pre winter blah&#8217;s seemed to hit me in November around my birthday. I had finished the Marathon, purchased the D90 that I had been saving for for quite some time (actually before it was announced), and then petered out with no real goals. So what are the goals for the new year?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read six new photography books. I was going to say 12, but lets be realistic. New ones to me.<\/li>\n<li>Find a mentor. I need to find someone to shoot with, someone that can push me, and someone that can tell me why the photos that I take are just not quite there.<\/li>\n<li>Do a 365 series of the kids. This will at least put the camera in my hands, and hopefully help with the next point.<\/li>\n<li>Learn about off camera flash. Actually I have been trying to learn for awhile, but not having an off camera flash was a bit of an impediment. I now have a SB800, so I need to start to put this to practice.<\/li>\n<li>Get more comfortable with Photoshop. I want to finish Scott Kelby&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/trying-to-learn-photoshop\/\">7 step progarm<\/a>, and then do it again.<\/li>\n<li>Finish the christopherwardphotography.com site. Ok, no one ever &#8220;finishes&#8221; a site, but I want to finish the new site I am working on. This shouldn&#8217;t be too hard to do in the beginning of the new year. I was hoping for Jan 1, but you know&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Attend a multi-day photography workshop. This one is mostly a cost issue, but I don&#8217;t have a big hardware list at the moment for this year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I suppose I could go on with other little things I want to finish and do, but those are the bigger ones I guess. I didn&#8217;t mention anything about vision. I don&#8217;t really know how to set a goal for that one. It will just have to sit there in the background hopefully leading the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I started to think about the last year, and what my New Years resolutions might be. So what did I do last year? I started up the blog again. Got my first full year of DSLR shooting under my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/happy-new-year\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[33,4],"tags":[],"series":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pffAy-5d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}