{"id":139566,"date":"2020-08-13T17:18:07","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T16:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/?p=139566"},"modified":"2020-08-13T17:18:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T16:18:07","slug":"photographs-are-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/opinion\/photographs-are-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographs are everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ten paces end to end, ten paces side to side. Not a lot of space, but it was lockdown time, so this would be my world for however long it took. The view wasn\u2019t too promising. A high hedge, a fence, a garage, the conservatory and, praise be, one open aspect towards the heather-clad hills, visible (just) between the multi-storey car park and a supermarket.<\/p>\n

There were loads of helpful and fun suggestions to keep photographers active. I loved some of the brilliant macro shots and little scenes using Lego and model-railway figures. How I envied the lucky few whose garden rolled down to the water\u2019s edge and they captured everything from otters to passing dolphins. There were also courses and training videos galore. Maybe I could concentrate on learning all the complicated ins-and-outs of a new editing set-up? I put my camera away.<\/p>\n\t\t

\n\t\t\t\"\"\t\t\t

Even Arthur\u2019s wife became an unknowing photographic subject during lockdown<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

A lightbulb moment
\n<\/span>In my office, blinds closed, I stared at a monitor. Outside it was the sunniest spring since records began, so I spent time sneaking out for yet another coffee or cold drink in the garden, lazily watching the gulls, my eye distracted by the odd butterfly. That was it, my lightbulb moment! There was lots to photograph here: I just had to wait for the subjects to come to me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

By the end of a week, at the first sound of combatant gulls or jet engines, I could scoop up my camera, switch on, do any compensation changes, all without looking, zoom out and be hunting my target in five seconds flat. I\u2019d never been this proficient and fast before!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I tracked butterflies sunbathing, bees gorging themselves, ladybirds socially distancing on a bench, even, despite a lifelong aversion, spiders. Trying to keep a darting hover-fly in the viewfinder, never mind in focus, passed many a locked-up hour.<\/p>\n

Turning the local historic abbey into something that might have been taken on a plate camera brought a moral dilemma. Not because mine wasn\u2019t really an old photo but because I can\u2019t actually see it from my garden. Cheating? No, because I can<\/i>… as long as I climb up to the garage roof! Even my\u00a0wife became an unknowing subject, gazing wistfully at blue skies reflected on\u00a0a window that might as well have had\u00a0bars on it.<\/p>\n

Despite being rather too easily persuaded that outdoors was better than in, I still managed to get to grips with that editing system, adding a bit of black & white or watercolour effect. Modestly, I look on this \u2018portfolio\u2019 as an achievement. No award-winning pictures, but a monument to beating boredom \u2013 and I learned an awful lot. Not just technique but how to see pictures and having the patience to look for, and wait for, the different angle. There\u2019s more to photography than obsession with expensive gear, the biggest sensor, and image resolution most people will never need. It\u2019s about the everyday things of the, in this case, very small world you live in.<\/p>\n

My unlikely photo studio turned out to be a stone-slabbed, plastic-grassed field of gold, where making the most of a limited subject range was great fun but, oh, by the time you read this, please let me be back in the great outdoors again.<\/p>\n

Do you have something you\u2019d like to get off your chest? Send us your thoughts in around 500 words to ap.ed@kelsey.co.uk<\/a> and win a year\u2019s digital subscription to AP, worth \u00a379.99<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AP reader Arthur Allan discovered that even the most unlikely of lockdown spaces are full of photographic opportunities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":139567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[466],"tags":[],"product-category":[],"class_list":["post-139566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"yoast_head":"\nPhotographs are everywhere - Amateur Photographer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/opinion\/photographs-are-everywhere\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Photographs are everywhere\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"AP reader Arthur Allan discovered that even the most unlikely of lockdown spaces are full of photographic opportunities\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/opinion\/photographs-are-everywhere\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Amateur Photographer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Amateur.photographer.magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-08-13T16:18:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2020\/08\/locking-01-2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"999\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Steve Jones\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@AP_Magazine\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@AP_Magazine\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Steve Jones\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/opinion\/photographs-are-everywhere\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/opinion\/photographs-are-everywhere\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Steve Jones\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/#\/schema\/person\/97055e11a17e073555cf1df246de195c\"},\"headline\":\"Photographs are everywhere\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-08-13T16:18:07+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/opinion\/photographs-are-everywhere\/\"},\"wordCount\":602,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/opinion\/photographs-are-everywhere\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2020\/08\/locking-01-2.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Opinion\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/opinion\/photographs-are-everywhere\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/opinion\/photographs-are-everywhere\/\",\"name\":\"Photographs are everywhere - Amateur Photographer\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/opinion\/photographs-are-everywhere\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/opinion\/photographs-are-everywhere\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2020\/08\/locking-01-2.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-08-13T16:18:07+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/#\/schema\/person\/97055e11a17e073555cf1df246de195c\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/opinion\/photographs-are-everywhere\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/opinion\/photographs-are-everywhere\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/opinion\/photographs-are-everywhere\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2020\/08\/locking-01-2.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2020\/08\/locking-01-2.jpg\",\"width\":1500,\"height\":999,\"caption\":\"Even Arthur\u2019s wife became an unknowing photographic subject during lockdown\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/opinion\/photographs-are-everywhere\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Latest\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Opinion\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/opinion\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":4,\"name\":\"Photographs are everywhere\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/\",\"name\":\"Amateur Photographer\",\"description\":\"The world's number 1 weekly photo magazine\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/#\/schema\/person\/97055e11a17e073555cf1df246de195c\",\"name\":\"Steve Jones\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cb0c8ae71b139c89daee89fabe871899?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cb0c8ae71b139c89daee89fabe871899?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Steve Jones\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/author\/stevejones\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Photographs are everywhere - Amateur Photographer","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/opinion\/photographs-are-everywhere\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Photographs are everywhere","og_description":"AP reader Arthur Allan discovered that even the most unlikely of lockdown spaces are full of photographic opportunities","og_url":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/opinion\/photographs-are-everywhere\/","og_site_name":"Amateur Photographer","article_publisher":"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Amateur.photographer.magazine","article_published_time":"2020-08-13T16:18:07+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1500,"height":999,"url":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2020\/08\/locking-01-2.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Steve Jones","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@AP_Magazine","twitter_site":"@AP_Magazine","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Steve Jones","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/opinion\/photographs-are-everywhere\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/opinion\/photographs-are-everywhere\/"},"author":{"name":"Steve Jones","@id":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/#\/schema\/person\/97055e11a17e073555cf1df246de195c"},"headline":"Photographs are everywhere","datePublished":"2020-08-13T16:18:07+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/opinion\/photographs-are-everywhere\/"},"wordCount":602,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/opinion\/photographs-are-everywhere\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2020\/08\/locking-01-2.jpg","articleSection":["Opinion"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/opinion\/photographs-are-everywhere\/","url":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/opinion\/photographs-are-everywhere\/","name":"Photographs are everywhere - Amateur Photographer","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/opinion\/photographs-are-everywhere\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/opinion\/photographs-are-everywhere\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2020\/08\/locking-01-2.jpg","datePublished":"2020-08-13T16:18:07+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/#\/schema\/person\/97055e11a17e073555cf1df246de195c"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/opinion\/photographs-are-everywhere\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/opinion\/photographs-are-everywhere\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/opinion\/photographs-are-everywhere\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2020\/08\/locking-01-2.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2020\/08\/locking-01-2.jpg","width":1500,"height":999,"caption":"Even Arthur\u2019s wife became an unknowing photographic subject during lockdown"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/opinion\/photographs-are-everywhere\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Latest","item":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Opinion","item":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/opinion\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Photographs are everywhere"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/#website","url":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/","name":"Amateur Photographer","description":"The world's number 1 weekly photo magazine","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/#\/schema\/person\/97055e11a17e073555cf1df246de195c","name":"Steve Jones","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cb0c8ae71b139c89daee89fabe871899?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cb0c8ae71b139c89daee89fabe871899?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Steve Jones"},"url":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/author\/stevejones\/"}]}},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2020\/08\/locking-01-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-04 12:39:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139568,"href":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139566\/revisions\/139568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139566"},{"taxonomy":"product-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product-category?post=139566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}