{"id":6332,"date":"2024-12-17T10:18:49","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T15:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=6332"},"modified":"2024-12-29T13:25:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T18:25:05","slug":"looking-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=6332","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly a lifetime ago I began searching for a better way of life. Out of school and more on my own, I was content, but the suburbs of DC was not where I wanted to be. Surfing had given me a taste of Hatteras Island and after some trips there, I was inextricably drawn back to the island. It was uncrowded, relatively undeveloped, and there were waves. An extended visit of 6 months turned into 50 years. Where did that time go?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>All along the way, I nurtured an interest in photography. I loved the environment, and culture. Before long those things embraced me and wouldn\u2019t let go.<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays I spend time evaluating and organizing what I\u2019ve done as a photographer. There are lots of images&#8230; too many count.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/RWS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6333\" src=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/RWS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/RWS.jpg 800w, http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/RWS-400x222.jpg 400w, http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/RWS-768x426.jpg 768w, http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/RWS-624x346.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A recent job got me digging in, editing and printing for a permanent display in our neighborhood Community Building. I made a photograph of some of those finished prints on my work table to see how they looked. Collectively it\u2019s a record of the past. Documenting history was never my intent as I shot the surroundings, but time passing made it that way.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m grateful for what the island has given me, the experience of finding my niche, and encountering a colorful cast of characters. It\u2019s been a great run!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly a lifetime ago I began searching for a better way of life. Out of school and more on my own, I was content, but the suburbs of DC was not where I wanted to be. Surfing had given me a taste of Hatteras Island and after some trips there, I was inextricably drawn back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,8,39,36,26,4,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-commercial-fishing","category-fishing","category-history","category-outer-banks","category-people","category-surfing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6332"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6347,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6332\/revisions\/6347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}