{"id":2,"date":"2019-07-07T03:46:24","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T03:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aegraves.com\/words\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-09-13T17:54:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T00:54:30","slug":"intro","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aegraves.com\/words\/intro\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>This is A. E. Graves&#8217; photography blog, separate from&#8230; well, <a href=\"https:\/\/mobilelene.blogspot.com\/\">her phone photography blog<\/a>?\u00a0 Her <a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/\">personal website<\/a>?\u00a0 The print-centric <a href=\"https:\/\/aegraves.com\/\">portfolio sample part of this domain<\/a>? Right.\u00a0 I see the confusion.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>I am an <em>active<\/em> fine art photographer, and wish to share works-in-progress with any visitors to my site.\u00a0 However, many photo competitions require never-before-shared images, a common requirement that discourages me from even <em>describing<\/em> my active projects.\u00a0 Some of my portfolios take YEARS to assemble, which means my website may be quiet for years&#8230; so I am trying to find a compromise by sharing samples, at least.<\/p>\r\n<p>Also, when I&#8217;m very good, I post proper articles to the excellent wet (chemical) darkroom printing site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternativephotography.com\/\">alternativephotography.com<\/a>, instead of my own sites, because:<em> it is such a great site!\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p>Life without my darkroom has been harsh, however.\u00a0 And many of the films I used to build my portfolio over time have been changed or discontinued.\u00a0 I&#8217;m working on modest, darkroom-free projects at the moment, which I wish to share.\u00a0 So, here we are!<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is A. E. Graves&#8217; photography blog, separate from&#8230; well, her phone photography blog?\u00a0 Her personal website?\u00a0 The print-centric portfolio sample part of this domain? Right.\u00a0 I see the confusion.\u00a0\u00a0 I am an active fine art photographer, and wish to share works-in-progress with any visitors to my site.\u00a0 However, many photo competitions require never-before-shared images, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry","fw-tab-6 fw-tabr-4"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegraves.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegraves.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegraves.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegraves.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegraves.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/aegraves.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":747,"href":"https:\/\/aegraves.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegraves.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}