{"id":27,"date":"2011-05-16T16:53:24","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T21:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mike.betor.org\/?p=27"},"modified":"2011-05-16T17:49:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T22:49:35","slug":"a-picture-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mike.betor.org\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"A Picture Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not sure how it happened but I somehow ended up with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groupon.com\">Groupon<\/a> account. About a month ago the daily deal was $35.00 for $100.00 of goods from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.picaboo.com\/index.html\">Picaboo<\/a>. Since I was starting to get into photography and I had a couple of pictures I liked already I decided to bite.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I sat down and started looking through my pictures trying to figure out what kind of photo book I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to create and I decided to try something a bit different. My idea is to take some of the outdoor shots I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been doing and, using Photoshop Elements, create \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Color Splash\u00e2\u20ac\u009d photos.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mike.betor.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IrisBud.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"IrisBud\" src=\"http:\/\/mike.betor.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IrisBud_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IrisBud\" width=\"244\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve done several of these so far and I really like the effect. I also have in mind a shot that would look great as the cover of the book if I can manage to get it.<\/p>\n<p>My only problem is that I have a limited selection of flowers and other objects around that I can use. Hmm\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6maybe I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll head off to one of the nature preserves around here and see what I can find.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not sure how it happened but I somehow ended up with a Groupon account. About a month ago the daily deal was $35.00 for $100.00 of goods from Picaboo. Since I was starting to get into photography and I had a couple of pictures I liked already I decided to bite. This morning I &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"http:\/\/mike.betor.org\/?p=27\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mike.betor.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mike.betor.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mike.betor.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mike.betor.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mike.betor.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mike.betor.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"http:\/\/mike.betor.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mike.betor.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mike.betor.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mike.betor.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}