{"id":635,"date":"2015-04-22T11:47:37","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T11:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/?p=635"},"modified":"2020-03-20T17:19:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T17:19:34","slug":"edinburgh-urban-lips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/edinburgh-urban-lips\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh Urban Lips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Always carry a camera, it\u2019s tough to shoot a picture without one.\u201d \u2014 Jay Maisel<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a big fan of photographer <a title=\"Jay Maisel's website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jaymaisel.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jay Maisel<\/a>. Jay always has a camera with him and takes pictures every day.<\/p>\n<p>In a sense, I always have a camera with me, the one that comes with my phone. But the image quality I get from it is a far cry from that of my \u201cproper camera\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>I was reminded of the importance of this a while back when I was wondering about the streets of Edinburgh. You never know when you are going to see something interesting. I cannot count the times when I saw something that would have made a good photograph but had left my \u201cproper camera\u201d at home.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately I had a good camera with me when these \u201celectric\u201d lips in an Edinburgh shop window caught my attention.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_636\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-636\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Philippe-Monthoux-Edinburgh-Urban-Lips.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-636\" src=\"http:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Philippe-Monthoux-Edinburgh-Urban-Lips-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Bunch of red light bulbs in the shape of lips in a shop window, Edinburgh, Scotland\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Philippe-Monthoux-Edinburgh-Urban-Lips.jpg 800w, https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Philippe-Monthoux-Edinburgh-Urban-Lips-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-636\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edinburgh is full of great photographic opportunities. Some obvious, some less obvious like these lips in a shop window.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Always carry a camera, it\u2019s tough to shoot a picture without one.\u201d \u2014 Jay Maisel I\u2019m a big fan of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,12,43,65],"tags":[188,108,7,67],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-edinburgh","category-personal-work","category-photography-2","category-urban","tag-edinburgh","tag-lips","tag-photography","tag-urban-2","has-thumbnail"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Philippe-Monthoux-Edinburgh-Urban-Lips.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Philippe-Monthoux-Edinburgh-Urban-Lips.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"PhilsBlog","author_link":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/author\/philsblog\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1516,"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions\/1516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippemonthoux.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}