{"id":35,"date":"2009-08-03T12:15:09","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T16:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zenbija.com\/wordpress\/?p=35"},"modified":"2009-08-03T12:18:56","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T16:18:56","slug":"a-camera-ready-traveler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zenbija.com\/wordpress\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"a camera-ready traveler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/03\/arts\/design\/03abroad.html?hp\">This NY Times story<\/a> is about Paris, not India, but it got me thinking, particularly because I&#8217;m leaving for Delhi tomorrow and people I talk to keep saying, &#8220;Take lots of pictures!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I always find that when I get home I look at my pictures, and when I see museum or zoo or other display pictures I always wonder, &#8220;Why did I take a picture of that?&#8221;\u00a0 It&#8217;s an animal in a cage, or a painting on a wall.\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t really say anything about the experience I&#8217;m having.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not a picture I couldn&#8217;t have just looked up online, if I wanted to see what an orangutan or an O&#8217;Keeffe looked like.<\/p>\n<p>The impulse to take pictures in museums makes sense; especially if you paid a fee to bring in a camera, you feel like you ought to get your money&#8217;s worth.\u00a0 And you might be feeling guilty about not taking as many pictures for all the people who told you to take lots of pictures.\u00a0 Of course, there&#8217;s no risk in this picture, no possibility that some person in the background wouldn&#8217;t want to be photographed, or that the scene will change as you&#8217;re getting your camera ready.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an easy shot.\u00a0 So you take it.<\/p>\n<p>Which leads me to a resolution for this trip: no pictures in museums.\u00a0 If there&#8217;s a museum with displays I want to see, I&#8217;ll take the time to see them.\u00a0 But the flip side is another resolution: more pictures outside of museums.\u00a0 More people, more actions, more smiles, more memories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This NY Times story is about Paris, not India, but it got me thinking, particularly because I&#8217;m leaving for Delhi tomorrow and people I talk to keep saying, &#8220;Take lots of pictures!&#8221; I always find that when I get home I look at my pictures, and when I see museum or zoo or other display [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zenbija.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zenbija.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zenbija.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zenbija.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zenbija.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.zenbija.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37,"href":"https:\/\/www.zenbija.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zenbija.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zenbija.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zenbija.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}