{"id":1472,"date":"2016-01-18T12:27:32","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T01:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1472-guten-tag.html"},"modified":"2016-01-18T13:21:57","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T02:51:57","slug":"guten-tag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1472-guten-tag.html","title":{"rendered":"Guten Tag"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 --><a href=\"\/serendipity\/\" title=\"Robert&apos;s Ramblings\"><!-- s9ymdb:2045 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1297-_MG_5454-Edit-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nI have been actively avoiding black and white street photography because I feel the genre is somewhat overdone and images I see are often clich\u00e9d.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nStreet images are often full of colour and the idea of giving up all that beautiful colour for the sake of a style or an expectation of style seems a little contrarian.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nRegardless, every now and then I like to try something in black and white. Not because &#8216;it works better in B&amp;W&#8217;, an expression which makes me cringe whenever I hear it, but because I love the tones and textures and that caught my attention.<br \/>\n <br \/>\nPerhaps the two ideas amount to the same thing in choosing to go B&amp;W but for me I need to know why I have made this choice as much as liking the feel of it.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe Haubis Backstube on Landstra\u00dfe in Linz caught my eye, or perhaps it was my nose, as we strolled passed. The man behind the counter caught my gaze and a moment later we were gone.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s nice to re-live this ever so brief moment and those black and white textures and tone help me to remember why I captured it.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Guten Tag&#8217;, 1\/250s f\/4 ISO800 17mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been actively avoiding black and white street photography because I feel the genre is somewhat overdone and images I see are often clich\u00e9d. Street images are often full of colour and the idea of giving up all that beautiful colour for the sake of a style or an expectation of style seems a &#8230; <a title=\"Guten Tag\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1472-guten-tag.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Guten Tag\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}