{"id":4729,"date":"2014-01-17T04:13:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T12:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randyw.camiwp.com\/?p=4729"},"modified":"2025-05-05T13:23:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T21:23:23","slug":"randy-wells-writer-director-of-photography-porsche-ferrari-travel-music-review-blog-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=4729","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/randywells-1000302s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/randywells-1000302s.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Copyright Randy Wells. No Reproduction Rights Granted Without Authorization.\" width=\"330\" height=\"203\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4730\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/randywells-1000302s.jpg 330w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/randywells-1000302s-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 85vw, 330px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>AN OBSERVATION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We live in a world that values easy solutions to complex problems. And buying [photographic] gear on specifications is such a solution. Further, instant pop culture has destroyed the ability of most people to appreciate nuance, delicacy and detail, values which require dedication and emotional commitment, and which are only revealed over time.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Finally, I submit that obsessive preoccupation with technical specifications is a masculine peculiarity, which values linear left- brain thinking over holistic right-brain feeling. Perhaps this explains why women are often into pinhole and antique cameras while men are intent upon acquiring the sharpest lenses and latest, most technically advanced equipment.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Unfortunately, most photographers have become slaves to sharpness and rate a lens solely on that basis, instead of on character, which is a subjective quality and cannot be quantified.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>-Peter Hughes<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/04\/10-tips-on-how-to-cure-yourself-of-gas-gear-acquisition-syndrome\/\">Curing Photo Gear Acquisition Syndrome<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>(Photo: Randy Wells, 1982 50mm Leica Summicron)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN OBSERVATION &#8220;We live in a world that values easy solutions to complex problems. And buying [photographic] gear on specifications is such a solution. Further, instant pop culture has destroyed the ability of most people to appreciate nuance, delicacy and detail, values which require dedication and emotional commitment, and which are only revealed over time.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=4729\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4729"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28849,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4729\/revisions\/28849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}