{"id":3979,"date":"2011-05-13T20:12:23","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T02:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/photos\/photojournalism\/"},"modified":"2011-05-13T20:12:23","modified_gmt":"2011-05-14T02:12:23","slug":"photojournalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/photos\/photojournalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Photojournalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like to take pictures of pretty things. But photography must include unpleasant subjects, as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2011\/05\/DSC00562.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"bicth\" border=\"0\" alt=\"bicth\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2011\/05\/DSC00562_thumb.jpg\" width=\"950\" height=\"772\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I took that picture four years ago. I was driving when I saw the truck. It took me a moment to catch the error. I thought, \u201cI wish I had a camera,\u201d and my wish came true (it had been on the seat next to me the whole time). Later, I decided not to post this because I abhor that word and the violence of this act. However, time passes and it\u2019s never too late to ridicule the idiot who painted this. (Mind you, dyslexics have my sympathy; misogynists do not.)<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, I was appalled to find the following sign in my neighborhood park. Who would wrap packing tape around a tree to post a sign. And who would hire such a person who couldn\u2019t spell or use spell check \u2013 or capitalize properly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2011\/05\/DSC06745.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"DSC06745\" border=\"0\" alt=\"DSC06745\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2011\/05\/DSC06745_thumb.jpg\" width=\"990\" height=\"772\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Both of these are part of a large topic I call \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/category\/loco\/albahquerque\/\">AlBAHquerque<\/a>,\u201d with which I document the ugly side of our town. I call quite a few of these \u201cscrew the view,\u201d because that\u2019s what they say to me: that someone\u2019s profit matters more than beauty.<\/p>\n<p><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/s\/c\/bin\/slideshow.swf\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" flashvars=\"host=picasaweb.google.com&#038;captions=1&#038;noautoplay=1&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feat=flashalbum&#038;RGB=0x000000&#038;feed=https%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fmarkjusticehinton%2Falbumid%2F5606387295773152161%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like to take pictures of pretty things. But photography must include unpleasant subjects, as well. I took that picture four years ago. I was driving when I saw the truck. It took me a moment to catch the error. I thought, \u201cI wish I had a camera,\u201d and my wish came true (it had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/photos\/photojournalism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Photojournalism<\/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":[24,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-albahquerque","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979","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=3979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}