{"id":3162,"date":"2011-05-02T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T18:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/photos\/the-catalyst-photomayo\/"},"modified":"2016-10-30T11:02:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T17:02:13","slug":"the-catalyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/photos\/the-catalyst\/","title":{"rendered":"The Catalyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>To Merri Rudd, brilliant on both sides of the lens.<\/em> [my Dedication from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0470917644\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=ahwilde-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399349&#038;creativeASIN=0470917644\">Digital Cameras &#038; Photography for Dummies<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Merri changes my perspective. (That should always be present tense.) She will crawl on her belly for a photo, whether to get to mountain gorillas or through the wildflowers. For years, Merri shared with me her Nikon camera and fabulous Nikkormat macro zoom lens. On every roll of 36, I&#8217;d shoot 30+ and she&#8217;d shoot a few. The best on the roll was usually hers.<\/p>\n<p>Mer half-jokes about us switching roles with the advent of digital photography. She has seen more of the 40K+ photos I&#8217;ve shot since 2000 than anyone else has. She&#8217;s a great editor and ruthless about deleting bad photos.<\/p>\n<p>See all blog entries tagged &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/HuDmu8\">Merri<\/a>&#8216;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Merri Rudd, brilliant on both sides of the lens. [my Dedication from Digital Cameras &#038; Photography for Dummies]. Merri changes my perspective. (That should always be present tense.) She will crawl on her belly for a photo, whether to get to mountain gorillas or through the wildflowers. For years, Merri shared with me her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/photos\/the-catalyst\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Catalyst<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-3162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","tag-merri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3162"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7998,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions\/7998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}