{"id":3212,"date":"2012-07-23T19:18:11","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T08:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesentimentalbloke.com\/?p=3212"},"modified":"2012-07-23T19:19:42","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T08:49:42","slug":"in-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petermacdonaldphoto.com.au\/2012\/07\/in-the-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Beginning&#8230;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/petermacdonaldphoto.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Greenly-Beach-fisherman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/petermacdonaldphoto.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Greenly-Beach-fisherman.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Greenly Beach fisherman\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/petermacdonaldphoto.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Greenly-Beach-fisherman.jpg 640w, https:\/\/petermacdonaldphoto.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Greenly-Beach-fisherman-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Something of a historical photo&#8230;.the first successful landscape I took.<\/p>\n<p>The date June 12, 2004 and somehow in amongst a numbing number of poorly exposed\/out of focus\/poorly composed\/ and a host of other mistakes&#8230;.my first success.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a place called Greenly Beach, west of Port Lincoln on South Australia&#8217;s west coast. The afternoon was heavy with the spray of the surf.<\/p>\n<p>It was shot with my first camera, an entry level Canon 300D camera. Fortunately I had been given some good advice about buying the best lens I could possible afford which was a Canon 28-300mm L series zoom with image stabiliser.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one of Canon&#8217;s top of the range lens and I still use it today, even if the camera is long gone.<\/p>\n<p>The beginning of a wonderful journey. So lucky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something of a historical photo&#8230;.the first successful landscape I took. 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