{"id":91,"date":"2008-12-15T14:56:26","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T21:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasbachand.com\/blog\/?p=91"},"modified":"2008-12-15T14:56:26","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T21:56:26","slug":"photographing-lake-tahoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasbachand.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/15\/photographing-lake-tahoe\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographing Lake Tahoe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"rtsocial-container rtsocial-container-align-right rtsocial-horizontal\"><div class=\"rtsocial-twitter-horizontal\"><div class=\"rtsocial-twitter-horizontal-button\"><a title= \"Tweet: Photographing Lake Tahoe\" class=\"rtsocial-twitter-button\" href= \"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=Photographing%20Lake%20Tahoe&url=https%3A%2F%2Fthomasbachand.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F12%2F15%2Fphotographing-lake-tahoe%2F\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"rtsocial-fb-horizontal fb-light\"><div class=\"rtsocial-fb-horizontal-button\"><a title=\"LikePhotographing Lake Tahoe\" class=\"rtsocial-fb-button rtsocial-fb-like-light\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fthomasbachand.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F12%2F15%2Fphotographing-lake-tahoe%2F\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"rtsocial-linkedin-horizontal\"><div class=\"rtsocial-linkedin-horizontal-button\"><a class=\"rtsocial-linkedin-button\" href= \"https:\/\/linkedin.com\/sharing\/share-offsite\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthomasbachand.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F12%2F15%2Fphotographing-lake-tahoe%2F\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share: Photographing Lake Tahoe\"><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"rtsocial-pinterest-horizontal\"><div class=\"rtsocial-pinterest-horizontal-button\"><a class=\"rtsocial-pinterest-button\" href= \"https:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https:\/\/thomasbachand.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/15\/photographing-lake-tahoe\/&media=https:\/\/thomasbachand.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/rtsocial\/images\/default-pinterest.png&description=Photographing Lake Tahoe\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Pin: Photographing Lake Tahoe\"><\/a><\/div><\/div><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"perma-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thomasbachand.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/15\/photographing-lake-tahoe\/\" title=\"Photographing Lake Tahoe\"><\/a><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"rts_id\" class=\"rts_id\" value=\"91\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"rts_media_nonce\" name=\"rts_media_nonce\" value=\"f06a4cf0cc\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_wp_http_referer\" value=\"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\" \/><\/div><div id=\"attachment_92\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-92 margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;\" title=\"Winter Dawn.  Tahoe Keys.  Lake Tahoe, California.\" src=\"http:\/\/thomasbachand.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/calt3851trb-300x238.jpg\" alt=\"Winter Dawn.  Tahoe Keys.  Lake Tahoe, California.\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomasbachand.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/calt3851trb-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thomasbachand.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/calt3851trb.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-92\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Winter Dawn.  Tahoe Keys.  Lake Tahoe, California.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Every time I set up the camera, my goal is to create a photograph worthy of a patron&#8217;s wall.\u00a0 To attract an audience the work must first be beautiful.\u00a0 To persevere, it must be insightful and create awareness. Photographing in the large format tradition with normal perspective lenses subtly conveys the historical\u00a0 perspective.\u00a0 It was the view of many early 19th Century photographers that wide angle lenses distorted reality.\u00a0 To paraphrase Michael Carey Lea in his <em>Manual of Photography<\/em> from 1871, <a title=\"M Carey Lea.  Manual of Photography.\" href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=TImUf30B50QC&amp;pg=PA162&amp;lpg=PA162&amp;dq=They+make+pretty+pictures,+but+these+are+wholly+incorrect,+as+many+must+have+noticed.+A+garden+becomes+a+park.&amp;source=web&amp;ots=nJx9cDR_gJ&amp;sig=7HQOXbKWy43FIyPfO-cueNaFoKs&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;resnum=1&amp;ct=result\" target=\"_blank\">gardens should not appear as parks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Lake Tahoe: A Fragile Beauty<\/em> begins with the beautiful and often subdued images of land, light, and shape.\u00a0 So much of our affection for Tahoe comes from a sense of awe and wonder upon seeing its shores.\u00a0 Slowly the imagery shifts toward, what I term, the intersecting landscape.\u00a0 To quote the <a title=\"Lake Tahoe A Fragile Beauty - Forward\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasbachand.com\/tahoe\/forward.html\" target=\"_blank\">Forward<\/a>: &#8220;While Tahoe&#8217;s sublime vistas always capture me, it is upon closer contemplation that I inevitably find myself at those intersecting landscapes, those brought on by our industriousness, dreams, and ambitions.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"rtsocial-container rtsocial-container-align-right rtsocial-horizontal\">\n<div class=\"rtsocial-twitter-horizontal\">\n<div class=\"rtsocial-twitter-horizontal-button\"><a title= \"Tweet: Photographing Lake Tahoe\" class=\"rtsocial-twitter-button\" href= \"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=Photographing%20Lake%20Tahoe&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fthomasbachand.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F12%2F15%2Fphotographing-lake-tahoe%2F\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rtsocial-fb-horizontal fb-light\">\n<div class=\"rtsocial-fb-horizontal-button\"><a title=\"LikePhotographing Lake Tahoe\" class=\"rtsocial-fb-button rtsocial-fb-like-light\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fthomasbachand.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F12%2F15%2Fphotographing-lake-tahoe%2F\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rtsocial-linkedin-horizontal\">\n<div class=\"rtsocial-linkedin-horizontal-button\"><a class=\"rtsocial-linkedin-button\" href= \"https:\/\/linkedin.com\/sharing\/share-offsite\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthomasbachand.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F12%2F15%2Fphotographing-lake-tahoe%2F\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share: Photographing Lake Tahoe\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rtsocial-pinterest-horizontal\">\n<div class=\"rtsocial-pinterest-horizontal-button\"><a class=\"rtsocial-pinterest-button\" href= \"https:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https:\/\/thomasbachand.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/15\/photographing-lake-tahoe\/&#038;media=https:\/\/thomasbachand.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/rtsocial\/images\/default-pinterest.png&#038;description=Photographing Lake Tahoe\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Pin: Photographing Lake Tahoe\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"perma-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thomasbachand.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/15\/photographing-lake-tahoe\/\" title=\"Photographing Lake Tahoe\"><\/a><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"rts_id\" class=\"rts_id\" value=\"91\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"rts_media_nonce\" name=\"rts_media_nonce\" value=\"f06a4cf0cc\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_wp_http_referer\" value=\"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Every time I set up the camera, my goal is to create a photograph worthy of a patron&#8217;s wall.\u00a0 To attract an audience the work must first be beautiful.\u00a0 To persevere, it must be insightful and create awareness. Photographing in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thomasbachand.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/15\/photographing-lake-tahoe\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[41,45,44,7,43,42],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lake_tahoe","category-photography","tag-httpbooksgooglecombooksidpj8dhbay4_ecpgpa326lpgpa326dqearlyphotographerlensperspectivesourcewebotszp3-im3mj3sigggcgk_smhd1sncg2xu19oaaaf94hlen","tag-httpbooksgooglecombooksidtimuf30b50qcpgpa58lpgpa58dqamericanphotography1913sourcewebotsnjx9cdsufisiggwnxzw0rcxti2lbvnvno-v2jnochlensaxoi","tag-httponlinebookslibraryupenneduwebbinbooklookupidkeyolbp21851","tag-httpwwwthomasbachandcomtahoeforwardhtml","tag-httpwwwvothphotocomspotlightarticlesforgotten_lensforgotten-lenshtm","tag-m1"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Nljk-1t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasbachand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasbachand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasbachand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasbachand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasbachand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thomasbachand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/thomasbachand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasbachand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasbachand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasbachand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}