{"id":684,"date":"2009-06-15T20:58:20","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T20:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=684"},"modified":"2009-06-15T20:58:20","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T20:58:20","slug":"your-best-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=684","title":{"rendered":"Your Best Shot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Jim Casper<\/em> of Lensculture<\/a> for pointing me (via Twitter)\u00a0 towards the Guardian Series My Best Shot<\/a>, which I hadn’t looked at since November.\u00a0 It’s a series that is interesting for both the selection of image and also what the photographers have to say about them – and sometimes that’s very little.\u00a0 And among some splendid work there are also some that make me think “well if that’s your best I’d hate to see the worst” and others where I think “you CANNOT be serious!” and think of many many more they have taken that are so much better.<\/p>\n

But then if anyone asked me what my best picture was, I’d probably be stuck for an answer.\u00a0 And whatever I said this week, probably by next week I would have changed my mind.\u00a0 And I rather hope I still have my best picture to look forward to.<\/p>\n

Of course some of those selections are little more than a marketing exercise for the photographer’s next book or show and I very seriously doubt if the photographer felt they were their “best shot.” And perhaps such a thing doesn’t really exist in any case, though their have been a few photographers perhaps unfortunate enough to be known only for one single image – though sometimes so iconic that it must be in its way satisfying.<\/p>\n

But mostly the pictures chosen – even if sometimes rather randomly are interesting, and so are some of the stories and the details the photographers give about themselves. So if like me, you’d forgotten about it, why not take a look. And if you come across something there you think is ridiculous – or particularly interesting –\u00a0 do share it with others in a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Jim Casper of Lensculture for pointing me (via Twitter)\u00a0 towards the Guardian Series My Best Shot, which I hadn’t looked at since November.\u00a0 It’s a series that is interesting for both the selection of image and also what the photographers have to say about them – and sometimes that’s very little.\u00a0 And among … Continue reading Your Best Shot<\/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":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-issues","category-photographers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","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=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}