{"id":6701,"date":"2016-12-24T10:05:05","date_gmt":"2016-12-24T10:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=6701"},"modified":"2016-12-20T16:05:48","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T16:05:48","slug":"christmas-cards-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=6701","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like many other photographers, most years I pick one of my pictures to use on a Christmas Card, though these days given the cost of postage, more people get it in the In Tray than in their letter box. Some photographers simply pick their favourite image from the year&#8217;s ouput, perhaps interesting to receive, but it seems somehow to me more about self-publicity than any outpouring of Christmas spirit &#8211; and could be sent on any day of the year. Others send complex image montages, amusing and clever, which are fun to get, but are often not the kind of thing you want to show to some of your visiting relatives. I&#8217;ve settled for images that have at least some seasonal relevance.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t actually remember which pictures I chose some years &#8211; but here are some of those that either I did or might well have sent from the past.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2003\/12\/14\/031214_n032f.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><br \/>\n<small>Ruislip, 2003<\/small><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2004\/12\/18\/041218_n102.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"298\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><br \/>\n<small>Fathers 4 Justice, 2004<\/small><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2005\/12\/09\/051209_d0219.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"298\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><br \/>\n<small>Fathers 4 Justice, 2005<\/small><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\" http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2006\/12\/16\/061216_d0443.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"302\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><br \/>\n<small>Santas get engaged at Santacon, 2006<\/small><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2007\/12\/13\/20071213-d0003.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"302\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><br \/>\n<small>Christmas Fair next to Tower Bridge, 2007<\/small><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2008\/12\/12\/20081212-d0181.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"https:\/\/turbulentlondon.com\/2015\/12\/03\/turbulent-londoners-muriel-lester-1883-1968\/\" target=\"_blank\">Muriel Lester<\/a>s&#8217; Serenade Bomb Makers, 2008<\/small><\/p>\n<p><em>to be continued&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden; width: 450px; height: 80px;\" src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/follow?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpeter.marshall.712&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;width=450&amp;height=80\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n______________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><small>There are no adverts on this site and it receives no sponsorship, and I like to keep it that way. But it does take a considerable amount of my time and thought, and if you enjoy reading it, a <a href=\"http:\/\/paypal.me\/Rephoto\" target=\"_blank\">small donation<\/a> &#8211; perhaps the cost of a beer &#8211; would be appreciated. <\/small><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><small><a href=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">My London Diary<\/a> : <a href=\"http:\/\/londonphotographs.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Buildings of London<\/a> : <a href=\"http:\/\/river-lea.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">River Lea\/Lee Valley<\/a> : <a href=\"http:\/\/petermarshallphotos.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">London&#8217;s Industrial Heritage<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><small>All photographs on this and my other sites, unless otherwise stated, are taken by and copyright of Peter Marshall, and are available for reproduction or can be bought as prints.<\/small><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><small><a href=\"http:\/\/buildingsoflondon.co.uk\/comments.htm\" target=\"_blank\">To order prints or reproduce images<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>________________________________________________________<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many other photographers, most years I pick one of my pictures to use on a Christmas Card, though these days given the cost of postage, more people get it in the In Tray than in their letter box. Some photographers simply pick their favourite image from the year&#8217;s ouput, perhaps interesting to receive, but &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=6701\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christmas Cards<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-own-work"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6703,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6701\/revisions\/6703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}