{"id":6670,"date":"2023-10-09T17:07:55","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T16:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patrickdonald.com\/?p=6670"},"modified":"2023-10-09T17:07:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T16:07:55","slug":"my-passion-for-photography-started-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patrickdonald.com\/my-passion-for-photography-started-here\/","title":{"rendered":"My Passion for Photography Started here&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Glendalough Co Wicklow around 1995\/96 &#8211; On a winter morning at first light &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I woke up at 5 AM and began my first landscape photography trip. My camera gear was all set, and I skipped breakfast, eager to reach Glendalough. The day before, I had spent some time at the Ilac Library in Dublin, where I had found some of Ansel Adams&#8217; large-format books showcasing Yosemite National Park. I was in awe of his work, so much so that it ignited my creative side to make some photography of my own.<\/p>\n<p>That day, armed with my Minolta film camera and zoom lens with black and white Ilford film loaded, I began a lifelong commitment to documenting Ireland&#8217;s landscapes. Over time, I would realise my more profound passion for photographing life in general as a fine art Documentary photographer, particularly in monochrome.<\/p>\n<p>As you can imagine I am forever grateful to Ansel for his amazing contribution to the Art of picture-making. The ethereal majesty of his pictures makes perfect sense to me and they leave you in the timeless space that all wonderful artworks should do.\u00a0 \u00a0 <em><strong>Thank you.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Patrick Donald<\/strong> Photographer<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glendalough Co Wicklow around 1995\/96 &#8211; On a winter morning at first light &#8211;\u00a0 I woke up at 5 AM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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