{"id":1384,"date":"2009-11-10T17:43:52","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T00:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/?p=1384"},"modified":"2026-10-03T20:32:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T00:32:19","slug":"sight-seeing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/sight-seeing\/","title":{"rendered":"Sight Seeing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I&#8217;ve noticed that my eyes are becoming more like camera lenses. (Zoom, Fisheye, Prime Lenses- all of them!) Whenever I&#8217;m riding in the passenger seat of a car and have the time to just look around, I find myself taking mental pictures. Even when I&#8217;m riding my bike or enjoying a little stroll through the French Quarter, I&#8217;m observing. I&#8217;m constantly looking for color, texture, reflections, lighting and patterns. This is something that I&#8217;ve always had in the back of my mind, yet the Photography Conference that I attended last week here in NOLA triggered even more curiosity in finding these things.<\/p>\n<p>The first day, I chatted with a few photographers who were from Florida, Seattle, and California. They just fell in love with the backdrops, the culture, and the vibrancy of our city. Being from New Orleans, I&#8217;ve been very fortunate to have my pick at some really amazing locations and I&#8217;m appreciative of its unique beauty. Lately I find myself day dreaming about <em>different<\/em> locations, particularly- places around New Orleans that don&#8217;t look like New Orleans. I&#8217;ll come across an over grown field, a funky old barn or a rusty pick up truck in the middle of a junky lot and I&#8217;ll just pause for a moment. I&#8217;ll imagine a model there or a couple, maybe a child&#8230;and I&#8217;ll try to picture them in that space. A good tip from one of the photography speakers was when you see one of those places, to hop out and take a picture of it or store some notes in your iphone as you come across interesting areas. I plan to start doing this &#8211; so the next time I have a senior or a couple who&#8217;s up for something totally off the wall, I&#8217;ll know where to go!<\/p>\n<p>Just wanted to share a little of what I soaked in from PartnerCon.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a couple of random shots &#8211; Canon 5D Markii @ ISO6400, no flash~<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1384 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_9296.jpg'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"386\" src=\"http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_9296-1024x682.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_9296-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_9296-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_9290.jpg'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"386\" src=\"http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_9290-1024x682.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_9290-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_9290-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_9288.jpg'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"386\" src=\"http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_9288-1024x682.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_9288-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_9288-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I&#8217;ve noticed that my eyes are becoming more like camera lenses. (Zoom, Fisheye, Prime Lenses- all of them!) Whenever I&#8217;m riding in the passenger seat of a car and have the time to just look around, I find myself taking mental pictures. Even when I&#8217;m riding my bike or enjoying a little stroll through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23543,"href":"http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions\/23543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jenamato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}