{"id":251,"date":"2025-02-03T00:33:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T00:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/100000grapes.com\/?p=251"},"modified":"2025-02-03T00:33:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T00:33:23","slug":"4-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/100000grapes.com\/?p=251","title":{"rendered":"4\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m still behind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Technically, today (Feb 2)  just started Week 6, but I&#8217;m going to try to post in order so that when October or November comes around, I can look back on all my progress properly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On to the progress:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So far, I am up to date on A Year with my Camera, I&#8217;ve received each lesson weekly, read them, taken notes, and done the exercises accordingly. It&#8217;s helpful. Some of the information in just the first 3 weeks feels like college-level foundational information, and has helped me help others &#8211; which is cool! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m behind on Reddit, and have missed some of the 52frames prompts, but I submitted my photo for &#8220;Blue&#8221; this week. Felt good about it, and on the day&#8217;s shots. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, I figured out some things! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I&#8217;ll have a more standardized &#8216;post&#8217; for these weekly updates, a template, and links to Flickr albums that showcase my photos as they happen. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I&#8217;ve been able to wind down some obligations and simplify my life and get organized. Coaching has been a huge obligation of mine, taking most of my free time and forcing me to choose or give up other things, or fall behind. Hence, the lack of progress here.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>That said, I&#8217;m on top of my stuff now, and it feels good. Feels manageable. Definitely righted the ship. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some other updates:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m happy with my camera, with the lenses I bought, and happy with the photos it&#8217;s taking. I do, however, need to get better at the mechanical aspects of camera operation. Clunky, but getting better. I&#8217;m still a beginner and need to remind myself of that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, I have to admit, with it being so cold outside, it&#8217;s been difficult for me to take photos outside. I don&#8217;t even mean motivation, I mean physically difficult. Even at 20-30 degrees, my gloves (skiing gloves at that), aren&#8217;t protective enough, nor are they dextrous enough. So it&#8217;s been just a set of bad choices &#8211; freeze my fingertips, or take photos with oven mitts haha. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I recently bought photography specific gloves, and I love them, but I need to try a size down. The benefit of these gloves is a split index finger, and split thumb, so you can use your finger on the dials. With this size, my thumb tip is at the split and getting a bit of wind chill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have about 30 days of cold mornings to tackle, and I finally feel like I have time, and the right  gloves, to get some meaningful reps outside, and reclaim my time and my progress. Let&#8217;s go!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still behind. Technically, today (Feb 2) just started Week 6, but I&#8217;m going to try to post in order so that when October or November comes around, I can look back on all my progress properly. 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