{"id":8346,"date":"2004-12-17T09:33:56","date_gmt":"2004-12-17T07:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/12\/17\/photo-friday-the-weekly-photo-challange\/"},"modified":"2005-04-22T06:22:23","modified_gmt":"2005-04-22T03:22:23","slug":"photo-friday-the-weekly-photo-challange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/12\/17\/photo-friday-the-weekly-photo-challange\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Friday &#8211; The Weekly Photo Challange"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Learning photography requires a lot of practice.  For those people who have a day job, like myself, it is difficult sometimes to find interesting subjects to photograph because of all the routine.  Every day looks like the previous one and changes are so small that it is easy to run out of ideas pretty soon.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, there is this web site &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photofriday.com\/\">Photo Friday<\/a>.  It provides challanges for photographers on a weekly basis.  There is a huge archive of previous challanges too, so if one decides to photograph along the lines of two or more themese in a single week, previous challanges could be used.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Learning photography requires a lot of practice. For those people who have a day job, like myself, it is difficult sometimes to find interesting subjects to photograph because of all the routine. Every day looks like the previous one and changes are so small that it is easy to run out of ideas pretty soon. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/12\/17\/photo-friday-the-weekly-photo-challange\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Photo Friday &#8211; The Weekly Photo Challange<\/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-8346","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":10624,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/01\/04\/more-on-rss-postrank\/","url_meta":{"origin":8346,"position":0},"title":"More on RSS : PostRank","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"January 4, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"It seems that there is a lot of activity around RSS lately (does that answer the \"will RSS ever go big?\" question?). 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