{"id":76,"date":"2024-04-28T10:39:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T17:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larryadamache-001-site2.etempurl.com\/?page_id=76"},"modified":"2026-06-27T14:51:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T21:51:54","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/larryadamache.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"76\" class=\"elementor elementor-76\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2da1010b e-flex e-con-boxed wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"2da1010b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2adacb1a elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"2adacb1a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" 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class=\"wpr-mobile-menu-item\">HOME<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-81\"><a href=\"https:\/\/larryadamache.com\/index.php\/about\/\" class=\"wpr-mobile-menu-item\">About<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-105\"><a href=\"https:\/\/larryadamache.com\/index.php\/recent\/\" class=\"wpr-mobile-menu-item\">Recent<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1656\"><a href=\"https:\/\/larryadamache.com\/index.php\/collection\/\" class=\"wpr-mobile-menu-item\">Collection<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1664\"><a href=\"https:\/\/larryadamache.com\/index.php\/animals\/\" class=\"wpr-mobile-menu-item\">Animals<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1672\"><a href=\"https:\/\/larryadamache.com\/index.php\/birds1\/\" class=\"wpr-mobile-menu-item\">Birds1<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1680\"><a href=\"https:\/\/larryadamache.com\/index.php\/birds2\/\" class=\"wpr-mobile-menu-item\">Birds2<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1688\"><a href=\"https:\/\/larryadamache.com\/index.php\/garden\/\" class=\"wpr-mobile-menu-item\">Garden<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1742\"><a href=\"https:\/\/larryadamache.com\/index.php\/landscapes\/\" class=\"wpr-mobile-menu-item\">Landscapes<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1696\"><a href=\"https:\/\/larryadamache.com\/index.php\/mushrooms\/\" class=\"wpr-mobile-menu-item\">Mushrooms<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1709\"><a href=\"https:\/\/larryadamache.com\/index.php\/other\/\" class=\"wpr-mobile-menu-item\">Other<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1717\"><a href=\"https:\/\/larryadamache.com\/index.php\/portraits\/\" class=\"wpr-mobile-menu-item\">Portraits<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1725\"><a href=\"https:\/\/larryadamache.com\/index.php\/water\/\" class=\"wpr-mobile-menu-item\">Water<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-1734\"><a href=\"https:\/\/larryadamache.com\/index.php\/wildflowers\/\" class=\"wpr-mobile-menu-item\">Wildflowers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/nav>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2a80b3ae e-flex e-con-boxed wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"2a80b3ae\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3cb402c9 elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"3cb402c9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fc6e876 e-con-full e-flex wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"fc6e876\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element 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individual observer &#8211; not critics, judges or academics.\u00a0 You should view art like you listen to music.<\/p><p>Minor White: &#8220;What usually destroys the experience of a photograph is to start criticizing it.&#8221;<\/p><p>Edward Weston: &#8220;you can teach a student how to look, but not how to see&#8221;<\/p><p>Edward Weston: &#8220;whether art comes out of a piano depends upon the musician &#8211; whether art comes out of a camera depends on the photographer&#8221;<\/p><p>Edward Weston: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know a thing about the rules of composition &#8211; I make my own &#8211; composition is the clearest and strongest way of seeing a subject&#8221;<\/p><p><strong>Navigation<\/strong>:<\/p><p>On the Home page, mouse over the image to stop the slide show, then you can move the images back and forth &#8211; move the mouse off to resume.<\/p><p>On the galleries, click on a Thumbnail to enlarge the image, then click again to move to next image. Click off the image to go back to Thumbnails.\u00a0 You can also move back and forth with the arrow keys.<\/p><p><strong>Larry Adamache<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>Coldstream, BC, Canada<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographic Art &#8211; Nature Photography HOME About Recent Collection Animals Birds1 Birds2 Garden Landscapes Mushrooms Other Portraits Water Wildflowers HOME About Recent Collection Animals Birds1 Birds2 Garden Landscapes Mushrooms Other Portraits Water Wildflowers About me: I&#8217;m a retired engineer.\u00a0 Some of my interests besides photography have been foreign affairs, music (clarinet, violin), cosmology, big history, motorcycles, hiking, skiing, scuba diving and ocean kayaking.\u00a0 I can be contacted by combining larry.adamache with @telus.net About this website: The Home page shows a few images that are a cross-section of the menu categories.\u00a0 \u00a0The Collection shows a more comprehensive selection from the same categories.\u00a0 About photographic art: Art is the product of craft and intuition\/imagination.\u00a0 Artistic merit is subjective and a matter of the opinion of the individual observer &#8211; not critics, judges or academics.\u00a0 You should view art like you listen to music. Minor White: &#8220;What usually destroys the experience of a photograph is to start criticizing it.&#8221; Edward Weston: &#8220;you can teach a student how to look, but not how to see&#8221; Edward Weston: &#8220;whether art comes out of a piano depends upon the musician &#8211; whether art comes out of a camera depends on the photographer&#8221; Edward Weston: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know a thing about the rules of composition &#8211; I make my own &#8211; composition is the clearest and strongest way of seeing a subject&#8221; Navigation: On the Home page, mouse over the image to stop the slide show, then you can move the images back and forth &#8211; move the mouse off to resume. On the galleries, click on a Thumbnail to enlarge the image, then click again to move to next image. Click off the image to go back to Thumbnails.\u00a0 You can also move back and forth with the arrow keys. 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