{"id":8086,"date":"2004-10-20T22:30:04","date_gmt":"2004-10-20T20:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/20\/picture-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2005-04-22T06:28:29","modified_gmt":"2005-04-22T03:28:29","slug":"picture-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/20\/picture-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Picture of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p><a href=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/20041020-leonid.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/thumb-20041020-leonid.jpg\" alt=\"Leonid. Self portrait.\"\/><\/a>Today&#8217;s assignment was to use a different camera.  Something that doesn&#8217;t have all the bells and whistles.  In fact, the less control &#8211; the better.  The only other camera except my Digital Rebel that I have is the small and weak thingy on SonyEricsson P800.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve made a total of 5 images and 3 are more-or-less OK.  One is outstanding &#8211; my self portrait.  It just has all there is to the snapshot with a crapy camera.  I love it.<\/p>\n<p>The album for today is <a href=\"\/photos\/POTD\/2004\/10\/20\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Today&#8217;s assignment was to use a different camera. Something that doesn&#8217;t have all the bells and whistles. In fact, the less control &#8211; the better. The only other camera except my Digital Rebel that I have is the small and weak thingy on SonyEricsson P800. I&#8217;ve made a total of 5 images and 3 are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/20\/picture-of-the-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Picture of the day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[48],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-8086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-photography","tag-potd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10472,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/09\/12\/keeping-your-digital-camera-safe\/","url_meta":{"origin":8086,"position":0},"title":"Keeping your digital camera safe","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"September 12, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Digital Photography School has a nice list of things that can easily kill your digital camera. 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