{"id":137,"date":"2020-04-07T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/graceholler\/?p=137"},"modified":"2020-04-08T19:16:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T19:16:32","slug":"sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/graceholler\/2020\/04\/07\/sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gforcefotos.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/02\/joakim-noah.jpg?w=786\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gforcefotos.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/dsc_8216.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Sports.&nbsp; This is my favorite subject to shoot.&nbsp; It always has been.  I started when I was about ten years old at the Chicago Cubs spring training, down in Mesa, Arizona.&nbsp; My family handed me the camera, and that\u2019s when I realized that I loved it.  I got my own camera when I was a freshman in high school.&nbsp; I took two photography classes in high school, and that\u2019s when I continued to take action photos.  The reason I still love taking sports photos so much, is because I no longer play sports.&nbsp; I grew up playing t-ball, softball, basketball, and golf.  Taking pictures of the sports that I loved so much growing up makes me happy.  I still love the game and am so passionate about my teams, so I feel like I am apart of it still, even when I am behind the camera.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I am on the job, my goal is to get those jumping and passing shots, and when I do, I get so excited.\u00a0 It makes me so happy, because it feels like I did my job and am able to tell a story through my camera lens.\u00a0 I love going to sporting events&#8230;I grew up going to baseball and basketball games with my family.  Being able to go to even more sporting events as a job&#8230;that\u2019s my dream job.\u00a0 Hopefully one day I will get hired as a professional sports team photographer down the road (preferably in Chicago).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/53015420e4b0c37a4001756a\/1549838225755-4UOBAT2S3WJOPRDVJ5EX\/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kF7KnQB-LMK5oggR14H7qnR7gQa3H78H3Y0txjaiv_0fDoOvxcdMmMKkDsyUqMSsMWxHk725yiiHCCLfrh8O1z5QPOohDIaIeljMHgDF5CVlOqpeNLcJ80NK65_fV7S1UdfTF9QwMFib9bhsRmiBzqfC9qjSjUj0sMnoYPegoo6gr2M1ZoXFVqINDUB3WZp1bg\/web_BAR8209bw.jpg?format=500w\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>One of my favorite Chicago land photographers: Barry Butler<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports.&nbsp; This is my favorite subject to shoot.&nbsp; It always has been. I started when I was about ten years old at the Chicago Cubs spring training, down in Mesa, Arizona.&nbsp; My family handed me the camera, and that\u2019s when I realized that I loved it. I got my own camera when I was a&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/graceholler\/2020\/04\/07\/sports\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sports<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[174775,28501,268],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-action","tag-professional","tag-sports","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/graceholler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/graceholler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/graceholler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/graceholler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/graceholler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/graceholler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/graceholler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/graceholler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/graceholler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/graceholler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}