{"id":22,"date":"2006-12-29T01:32:17","date_gmt":"2006-12-29T01:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kebabselector.co.uk\/kebablog\/?p=22"},"modified":"2006-12-29T01:32:17","modified_gmt":"2006-12-29T01:32:17","slug":"decisions-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Decisions, Decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mmmmm,\u00a0 difficult one really.\u00a0 After all I owe everything I currently own to my profession.\u00a0 But I&#8217;m getting bored of it.\u00a0\u00a0 So looking a moving into what I&#8217;d really love to do, photography.\u00a0 Now comes the other stumbling block (or three).<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what I want to shoot.\u00a0 After all I have so many options to choose.\u00a0 Now people\/modelling isn&#8217;t my thing, so at least that&#8217;s ruled out.\u00a0 Now sports is something that does interest me.\u00a0 However sports required a serious investment in kit (thinking 1D Mark II N and a minimum of a 400mm lens &#8211; Currently around 5k&#8217;s worth).<\/p>\n<p>Qualifications wise for photography, I haven&#8217;t got any.\u00a0 So a thing to try is the Amateur Photography Diploma.\u00a0 It costs a very reasonable \u00a3300, but I&#8217;m wondering how recognised it is.\u00a0 Still it&#8217;ll get my photography skills up to scratch and hopefully technically better.<\/p>\n<p>A lottery win might help, so here&#8217;s looking for that (in fairness I haven&#8217;t checked my tickets for the last month &#8211; still I think I can guarantee the outcome)<\/p>\n<p>Motivation is currently a big stumbling block.\u00a0 I need to get out of this rut of being busy for the sake of being busy and actually do stuff.\u00a0 Today I did go and take a few shots, the aircraft ones were fine.\u00a0 The sun shots were, well rushed and it showed.\u00a0 Still got up and took pictures.\u00a0 Tomorrow morning (this morning actually), I&#8217;ll be heading into Birmingham to shop.\u00a0 The 5D will be with me, so I&#8217;ll endeavour to bag some shots.<\/p>\n<p>So tomorrow is the first day of my new career?, hope so, we&#8217;ll see \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mmmmm,\u00a0 difficult one really.\u00a0 After all I owe everything I currently own to my profession.\u00a0 But I&#8217;m getting bored of it.\u00a0\u00a0 So looking a moving into what I&#8217;d really love to do, photography.\u00a0 Now comes the other stumbling block (or three). I don&#8217;t know what I want to shoot.\u00a0 After all I have so many &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/?p=22\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Decisions, Decisions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kebablog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}