{"id":6,"date":"2012-04-22T18:21:46","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T23:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pspective.com\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2012-09-14T22:59:27","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T03:59:27","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/pspective.com\/photography\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I&#8217;m Andrew Leggett, an Englishman living in Austin, Texas.\u00a0 I make a living as a software consultant, but when I need to escape from the pressures of work, you&#8217;ll often find me peering through a camera&#8217;s viewfinder.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been taking pictures all my life, but I never had the patience or budget to be a film photographer. Digital photography provided the opportunity for me to experiment and learn, and over the last five or six years my experience and <a href=\"http:\/\/pspective.com\/photography\/category\/equipment\/\">equipment list<\/a> has grown, but I am still as excited as ever about learning and trying out new things.<\/p>\n<p>I would describe myself as a keen amateur photographer (I&#8217;ve never made a penny from photography).\u00a0 I simply enjoy the <a href=\"http:\/\/pspective.com\/photography\/?page_id=236\">whole process of photography<\/a>, from the preparation through to the finished result.\u00a0 I&#8217;m entirely self-taught; picking up tips from forums, blogs such as this, and &#8211; as a last resort &#8211; reading manuals, but by far the best lessons can be learned by just getting out there, taking pictures and seeing the results.<\/p>\n<p>This blog is a way for me to organise and share my views about photography, and pass on techniques that have helped me, and I also hope I get some enjoyment from writing about something that gives me a lot of pleasure.\u00a0 If anyone stumbles across this, then I hope they can take away something positive.\u00a0 I also hope that visitors will leave comments to share their opinions on the topics so that I can learn from them too.<\/p>\n<p>All the pictures on this site were taken by me, and I want to build this blog around the photographs themselves by explaining all the elements that go into creating the image, and hopefully inspiring other photographers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pspective.com\/photography\">Enjoy the site<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I&#8217;m Andrew Leggett, an Englishman living in Austin, Texas.\u00a0 I make a living as a software consultant, but when I need to escape from the pressures of work, you&#8217;ll often find me peering through a camera&#8217;s viewfinder. I&#8217;ve been &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/pspective.com\/photography\/about-me\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pspective.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pspective.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pspective.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pspective.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pspective.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"http:\/\/pspective.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":625,"href":"http:\/\/pspective.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pspective.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}