{"id":1061,"date":"2018-11-13T23:53:45","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T10:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tameion.co.nz\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2018-11-14T00:05:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T11:05:23","slug":"the-power-of-a-great-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tameion.co.nz\/?p=1061","title":{"rendered":"The Power of a Great Picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was blessed to be in Wellington, New Zealand several years ago when I came across the exhibition of a famous photographer. I cannot recall his name except that he was being honoured with an exhibition at the museum.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1063\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1063\" style=\"width: 652px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1063\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.tameion.co.nz\/?attachment_id=1063\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.tameion.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Alien.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1240,822\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Frances Oliver&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Frances Oliver Photgraphy Ltd\\u00a92017. Aipa Terms \\u0026amp; Conditions. Moral Rights asserted.&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Alien\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;My daughter and I  &amp;#8211; she&amp;#8217;s more interested in the camera &amp;#8211; LOL&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Foam, plastic piping, lots of glue, a decent paint job&amp;#8230; and an insanely tight time frame made this costume a reality in Wayne&amp;#8217;s Workshop&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.tameion.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Alien-300x199.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.tameion.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Alien-1024x679.jpg\" class=\" wp-image-1063\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tameion.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Alien.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"652\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tameion.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Alien.jpg 1240w, https:\/\/www.tameion.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Alien-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tameion.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Alien-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tameion.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Alien-1024x679.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tameion.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Alien-263x174.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 652px) 100vw, 652px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1063\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Foam, plastic piping, lots of glue, a decent paint job&#8230; and an insanely tight time frame made this costume a reality in Wayne&#8217;s Workshop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Looking at the various images from his best works scattered around the walls I came across a display cabinet with a single roll of 24 shot film from a photo shoot he had completed.<\/p>\n<p>The subject was some famous individual laughing with friends at a bull fight. The cellulite was unwound and it revel 23 very plain and very ordinary images of the event. Nothing special or significant- nothing out of the ordinary.\u00a0In fact they all looked very much like someone&#8217;s holiday snaps &#8211; except for one.<\/p>\n<p>One image had that &#8216;X&#8217; factor. That zing. In fact such was its impact that I think it made the cover of Time Magazine. But that is not what stuck in my mind . What stunned me was that here was one image, just one image, where I had expected to see an entire roll of stunning images&#8230;.<span style=\"text-indent: 0em;\">And all I could focus on was that one image. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-indent: 0em;\">When you think about it that&#8217;s all it takes. One image to make a moment memorable<\/span>, to make a moment golden.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-indent: 0em;\">So here&#8217;s a big up to all those photographers of us Cosplayers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-indent: 0em;\">Thanks!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was blessed to be in Wellington, New Zealand several years ago when I came across the exhibition of a famous photographer. I cannot recall his name except that he was being honoured with an exhibition at the museum. Looking at the various images from his best works scattered around &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"two_page_speed":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alien","category-cosplay"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.tameion.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Photographer.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5lJ1z-h7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tameion.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tameion.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tameion.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameion.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameion.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameion.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameion.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tameion.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameion.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tameion.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}