{"id":545,"date":"2009-12-31T16:20:58","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T22:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.williamneill.com\/blog\/?p=545"},"modified":"2010-01-01T11:40:59","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T17:40:59","slug":"happy-2010-best-of-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/happy-2010-best-of-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 2010 \/ Best of 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[kml_flashembed movie=&#8221;http:\/\/www.williamneill.com\/portfolios\/best-of-2009\/loader.swf&#8221; height=&#8221;500&#8243; width=&#8221;585&#8243; quality=&#8221;best&#8221; bgcolor=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; wmode=&#8221;opaque&#8221; fvars=&#8221; paramXMLPath = <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mywebsite.eu\/slideshows\/param.xml\">http:\/\/www.williamneill.com\/portfolios\/best-of-2009\/param.xml<\/a> ; xmlDataPath = <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mywebsite.eu\/slideshows\/images.xml\">http:\/\/www.williamneill.com\/portfolios\/best-of-2009\/images.xml<\/a> &#8221; base=&#8221;.&#8221; \/]<\/p>\n<p>Many years ago, when I was involved with Ansel Adam&#8217;s workshops, I was fortunate to hear lectures by many master photographers.\u00a0 One of them was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uelsmann.com\/\">Jerry Uelsmann<\/a>, who became a friend and mentor.\u00a0 During his lectures, he would show his work from the past one year.\u00a0 Since his work involves compositing many images together, these images including variations he had tried, often with the same objects in different.\u00a0 The view was able to see some of the progression of Jerry\u2019s creative process and always felt inspired when seeing his presentations.\u00a0 I\u2019ve often thought I should do this myself each year, in order to assess my year\u2019s efforts, but never got around to it.<\/p>\n<p>With the advent of Facebook, Twitter, and blogs, it is easy to create a Best Of portfolio to share with friends and fellow photographers.\u00a0 Here is a collection of my images from 2009.\u00a0 I started the new year in India, so a few images are from there.\u00a0 Otherwise, I didn\u2019t travel much so many images are ones made around my house, in nearby Yosemite and during a short trip to the Monterey coast.<\/p>\n<p>Best wishes for the coming year,<\/p>\n<p>Bill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[kml_flashembed movie=&#8221;http:\/\/www.williamneill.com\/portfolios\/best-of-2009\/loader.swf&#8221; height=&#8221;500&#8243; width=&#8221;585&#8243; quality=&#8221;best&#8221; bgcolor=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; wmode=&#8221;opaque&#8221; fvars=&#8221; paramXMLPath = http:\/\/www.williamneill.com\/portfolios\/best-of-2009\/param.xml ; xmlDataPath = http:\/\/www.williamneill.com\/portfolios\/best-of-2009\/images.xml &#8221; base=&#8221;.&#8221; \/] Many years ago, when I was involved with Ansel Adam&#8217;s workshops, I was fortunate to hear lectures by many master photographers.\u00a0 One&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/happy-2010-best-of-2009\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,68,12,1],"tags":[15,34,54],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landscape-photography","category-nature","category-photography","category-uncategorized","tag-william-neill","tag-williamneill-com","tag-yosemite-valley"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}