{"id":8092,"date":"2004-10-21T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-21T21:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/21\/picture-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2005-04-16T20:46:06","modified_gmt":"2005-04-16T17:46:06","slug":"picture-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/21\/picture-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Picture of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p><a href=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/20041022-kiwi.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/thumb-20041022-kiwi.jpg\" alt=\"Kiwi\"\/><\/a>Today&#8217;s submission to &#8216;<strike>Fruit<\/strike> Picture of the day&#8217; project is kiwi.  I had the idea of shooting a couple of them together &#8211; one cut and one untouched &#8211; for a couople of days now.  When I started the session I realized that I have eaten all of them but one while thinking about composition.  Putting just one fruit in the frame wasn&#8217;t interesting anymore, so I decided to cut it in two.  Then I realized that it is pretty difficult to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>adjust your brain to two halfs after thinking about two wholes for a couple of days<\/li>\n<li>places items of round forms in exact positions<\/li>\n<li>cover up ugly parts of the kiwi fruit when all you have are ugly parts of the fruit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have taken a total of 18 shots to produce this one picture <a href=\"\/photos\/POTD\/2004\/10\/21\">here<\/a>.  It reminds me of my early computer days when I was making syntax errors in the <code>if<\/code> &#8230; <code>then<\/code> &#8230; <code>else<\/code> statement every other day for a few month in a row.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Today&#8217;s submission to &#8216;Fruit Picture of the day&#8217; project is kiwi. I had the idea of shooting a couple of them together &#8211; one cut and one untouched &#8211; for a couople of days now. When I started the session I realized that I have eaten all of them but one while thinking about composition. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/21\/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":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-8092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-photography"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16072,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/26\/apple\/","url_meta":{"origin":8092,"position":0},"title":"Apple","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"January 26, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Looking at this ugly apple, I remembered a joke someone told me recently about the three famous apples in the history of humanity - the one Eve gave to Adam, the one that fell on Isaac Newton, and the one on the logo of the Apple Computers Inc. \u00a0Actually, I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/wpid-012612151929.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":8384,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/12\/27\/the-story-of-the-apple-logo\/","url_meta":{"origin":8092,"position":1},"title":"The story of the Apple logo","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"December 27, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"For the last couple of days Olga and I are cultivating all sorts of ideas about Apple's logo. 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