{"id":6652,"date":"2026-03-29T13:34:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T17:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=6652"},"modified":"2026-04-07T16:51:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:51:46","slug":"why-i-live-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=6652","title":{"rendered":"Why I Live Here"},"content":{"rendered":"

People ask, how\u2019s the photography going? My answer can vary, but it depends what I’m working on. Nowadays I\u2019ve cut back shooting, to spend more time editing and archiving what’s accumulated. I\u2019m a photographic hoarder. I maintain and store what I shoot in a reasonably categorized fashion, so when looking for particular images, I can almost always find them. There are a few missing in action, others may have been inadvertently tossed. I just do the best I can.<\/p>\n

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I have boxes of saved work prints. Many shot with film, others taken with digital cameras that I began using in 2003. For the above image I spread some 10 inch prints across my work table and photographed them from above.<\/p>\n

They show some of the reasons why I live here. So to answer that first question, it’s good!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

People ask, how\u2019s the photography going? My answer can vary, but it depends what I’m working on. Nowadays I\u2019ve cut back shooting, to spend more time editing and archiving what’s accumulated. I\u2019m a photographic hoarder. I maintain and store what I shoot in a reasonably categorized fashion, so when looking for particular images, I can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,3,22,8,39,36,26,4,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beach","category-birds","category-buildings","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\/6652","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=6652"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6662,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6652\/revisions\/6662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}