{"id":1400,"date":"2021-01-12T18:21:34","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T18:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timhinchliffe.co.uk\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2021-01-12T18:21:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T18:21:34","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/timhinchliffe.co.uk\/?page_id=1400","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-2 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>I&#8217;m not a <em>&#8216;technical&#8217;<\/em> photographer. I&#8217;m not after the <em>&#8216;perfect print<\/em>&#8216; and I don&#8217;t count pixels.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timhinchliffe.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/MG_0347q.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-83 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/timhinchliffe.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/MG_0347q-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>My gear<\/strong> isn&#8217;t new and lots of it isn&#8217;t even recent. It&#8217;s generally towards the top of the range, just not the current range.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It does what I want it to<\/strong>. If every once in a while the focus isn&#8217;t spot on, I really don&#8217;t care.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;m capturing<\/strong> moments most of the time, and they&#8217;re moments that won&#8217;t come past again. Getting the shot is what counts; pursuing some illusory idea of perfection is not.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I moved<\/strong> to the North Kent coast about eight years ago, after living in South-East London for several hundred years. A smart move.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aside from<\/strong> taking photographs, I also have a collection of classic cameras which at some point I&#8217;ll attempt to sell since they deserve to be used. All they do here is get dusty. I&#8217;m also very into classic cars. But don&#8217;t be misled. Things weren&#8217;t better in the old days. They just <em>looked<\/em> better.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;ve participated<\/strong> in Non-Professional Theatre for thirty-odd years and when you add in the several hundred dress-rehearsals I&#8217;ve attended as a photographer, that&#8217;s a lot of drama any way you slice it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 I&#8217;m not a &#8216;technical&#8217; photographer. I&#8217;m not after the &#8216;perfect print&#8216; and I don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page_extrawidgets-full-width.php","meta":{"gutenify_custom_css":"","gutenify_custom_css_data":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1400","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timhinchliffe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timhinchliffe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timhinchliffe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timhinchliffe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timhinchliffe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timhinchliffe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timhinchliffe.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}