{"id":8078,"date":"2004-10-18T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-18T21:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/18\/picture-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"picture-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/18\/picture-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Picture of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/20041019-pear.jpg\" alt=\"Pear\"><\/p>\n<p>It seems that I am getting pretty confident with photography of small simple items.  Just to confirm that confidence, today I&#8217;ve made an excellent (by my measures) picture of pear.  In order not to make is boring as Snickers bars from before, I played a little bit with the background.  Instead of using a single solid white piece of paper, I used four face tissues put together in to the square.  They do seem to compensate for absolute simplicity of the subject nicely.<\/p>\n<p>The album with the only shot is <a href=\"\/photos\/POTD\/2004\/10\/18\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>It seems that I am getting pretty confident with photography of small simple items. Just to confirm that confidence, today I&#8217;ve made an excellent (by my measures) picture of pear. In order not to make is boring as Snickers bars from before, I played a little bit with the background. 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