{"id":24830,"date":"2022-12-29T01:03:48","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T05:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=24830"},"modified":"2022-12-26T00:29:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T04:29:05","slug":"self-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/self-portrait\/","title":{"rendered":"self portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24834\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Self-portrait-book-Popular-Mechanics-Oct.-1948-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24834\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24834\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Self-portrait-book-Popular-Mechanics-Oct.-1948-sm-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24834\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">a chameleon is featured in this 74 year old article<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Self portraits or selfies are simple today with the ubiquitous front facing smart phone camera. Before that, a self timer allowed self portraits with \u00a0tripod mounted cameras.<\/p>\n<p>But how can you capture something that is over in the blink of an eye &#8211; like the tongue of a lizard capturing a tasty morsel? An article in the October, 1948 issue of Popular Mechanics shows one way this can be accomplished.<\/p>\n<p>The stand the chameleon is on looks very much like a bit of Leitz hardware to me.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to good friend and fellow PHSC member, George Dunbar, for spotting this article of by gone days and sharing it with others who cherish photographic history.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Self portraits or selfies are simple today with the ubiquitous front facing smart phone camera. Before that, a self timer allowed self portraits with \u00a0tripod mounted cameras. But how can you capture something that is over in the blink &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/self-portrait\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[4260,14,755,4259,613],"class_list":["post-24830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-chameleon","tag-film","tag-flash","tag-lizard","tag-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24837,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24830\/revisions\/24837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}