{"id":1175,"date":"2009-06-22T12:09:17","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T02:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2009-06-22T12:09:17","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T02:09:17","slug":"the-bug-it-bites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/22\/the-bug-it-bites\/","title":{"rendered":"The bug, it bites."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When do you know the photography bug has bitten? Is it a definite moment, or does it happen gradually? I think it is a gradual progression. I can&#8217;t think of a definitive moment when I have thought &#8220;yes, I have the bug&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"BzzZZtttzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZ by norbography, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/norbography\/409851055\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/125\/409851055_b498f9afb6.jpg\" alt=\"BzzZZtttzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZ\" width=\"500\" height=\"370\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em><strong>Is it when you climb out of bed to take shots of a lightning show? <\/strong><\/em><strong><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Five years ago, if you had told me that by mid 2009 I would own thousands and thousands of dollars of photography equipment, I would have probably laughed. But now I do, and think nothing of it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Dawn Dip by norbography, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/norbography\/2870425637\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3276\/2870425637_0436d9fb91.jpg\" alt=\"Dawn Dip\" width=\"500\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Is it getting up early for a dawn shot?<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I take a yearly road trip to places I have never been before, purely to take photos of new places. If I had the money I would travel overseas for the same reason.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Hover F.........       Fly! by norbography, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/norbography\/2136957567\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2174\/2136957567_1b9acc1e3f.jpg\" alt=\"Hover F.........       Fly!\" width=\"500\" height=\"373\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em><strong><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Is it waiting hours to get a shot?<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>When do you know you have been bitten by the photography bug? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When do you know the photography bug has bitten? Is it a definite moment, or does it happen gradually? I think it is a gradual progression. I can&#8217;t think of a definitive moment when I have thought &#8220;yes, I have the bug&#8221;. Is it when you climb out of bed to take shots of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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,"_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}},"categories":[6],"tags":[173,343,840],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","tag-bug","tag-expesive","tag-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqIRT-iX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}