{"id":1584,"date":"2018-03-07T21:51:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T20:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/?p=1584"},"modified":"2024-03-02T15:30:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T15:30:45","slug":"focus-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/focus-shift\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am still shooting, albeit barely. Hence the lack of posts. I can photograph alright and if you print and frame something it can look good in your home. But my focus is all over the place and I am suspecting it might be shifting. Maybe towards an even simpler life, a life with less need to accomplish things, to \u201cbe\u201d somebody. I do not want to look at other people to compare anymore, I want to look at them as human beings with interesting qualities. Or maybe I want to look at plants.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1585\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1585\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1585\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2017-03-26-09.23.48_Joeri1_009740-Veluwe-forest.jpg\" alt=\"Veluwe forest\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1585\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veluwe forest &#8211; photo Joeri van Veen 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is my wife, whom I love very much. Sometimes she also suffers from my worries. Sorry babe.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1586\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1586\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1586 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2017-03-26-13.32.08_Joeri1_009932-Portrait-Nicolien.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Nicolien\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1586\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portrait of Nicolien &#8211; photo Joeri van Veen 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Things are looking up though, come to think of it. Since I shoot less I write more (my book) and space is created to find out what it is that I can do in this world, besides worry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not about focus shift in a (zoom) lens. This is, in hindsight, a first example of my struggles with the meritocracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1584"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3049,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions\/3049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joerivanveen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}