{"id":6153,"date":"2013-02-06T11:23:49","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T15:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/?p=6153"},"modified":"2017-07-19T14:33:08","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T18:33:08","slug":"myron-halpern-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/myron-halpern-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Monroe Halpern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u00a0&#8220;Rising from the Ashes&#8221;<!--more--><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince my teenage years, photography has been a passionate interest of mine.\u00a0 Those early years taught me photographic seeing skills as well as darkroom skills.\u00a0 Another passionate interest of mine is computers.\u00a0 Starting with the earliest days of personal computing, my ongoing interest and self-education has provided me with a digital skill set.\u00a0 The emergence of digital photography, combined with my computer skills, has served to further enhance my photographic enthusiasm.\u00a0 Walking our great city and striving to capture the various elements that make great pictures is a much enjoyed challenge.\u00a0 Travel and landscape photography, capturing the essence of various locals is a creative test.\u00a0 The marriage of the digital camera and the computer has brought about the birth of Photoshop and other applications.\u00a0 These applications are tools that add yet another layer of creativity to the photographic process.\u00a0 I seize every opportunity to utilize these tools to enhance my craft.<\/p>\n<p>To keep the creative juices flowing there is nothing like associating with other photographers.\u00a0 Exchange of visions, techniques and experiences is stimulating.\u00a0 My participation in groups such as the Manhasset-Great neck Camera Club and Photo-Artists-Network (PHAN) certainly has been a great benefit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:montyrx@optonline.net\">montyrx@optonline.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0&#8220;Rising from the Ashes&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artists"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13474,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6153\/revisions\/13474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manhassetlibrary.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}