{"id":135,"date":"2009-05-22T22:28:30","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T22:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/?p=135"},"modified":"2026-03-26T16:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:30:16","slug":"exhibitionism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/2009\/05\/22\/exhibitionism\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibitionism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When my mind is not on embedded software, I have various other interests and one, which has given me a lot of pleasure over the years, is photography. Although I belong to a camera club and enter competitions etc., my main motivation in taking pictures is to please myself. This might be with snap-shots that remind me of my daughters growing up or a place I enjoyed visiting. Or it might be an image that I have carefully captured for its own sake. But, having said this, it is always pleasing when one&#8217;s work is appreciated by others &#8211; maybe just friends offering compliments or perhaps something more tangible.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I started doing strictly digital photography about 6 years ago and have not touched a roll of film since [and probably never will again]. I am very conscious of the progress of technology and how the equipment gets better and cheaper almost by the week. I come across many photographers who are convinced that by getting the right [expensive] kit, they will start creating excellent pictures. Often they just get buried in the complexity of the camera and are doomed to disappointment.<\/p>\n<p>My point was proven a few years ago when I set out to gain a photographic qualification [which resulted in me being able to put the letters &#8220;CPAGB&#8221; after my name]. I needed to submit 10 pictures. Each would get a score and, if the total was high enough [which it was], my qualification would be assured. I was keen to see which pictures had done best. To my surprise, the top scorer was a grab shot that I had taken of a colleague in a caf\u00e9 using a tiny 2 mega-pixel camera &#8211; actually it was a crop of the actual picture. Very modest equipment, but a picture I have always enjoyed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_137\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-137\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-137\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/files\/2009\/05\/exhib-1.jpg\" alt=\"a grab shot\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-137\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A grab shot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Another example of my attempts to gain recognition for my photography has been my submission to exhibitions. I have tried numerous times to get a picture into a big show by clubs in the West of England. This year I finally succeeded with an image that I just knew had potential. It is even more pleasing to know that the organizers have selected this image for submission to the national exhibition. I eagerly await the result of that selection.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_139\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-139\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-139\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/files\/2009\/05\/exhib-2.jpg\" alt=\"The exhibited picture\" width=\"480\" height=\"521\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The exhibited picture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Of course, digital cameras are fine examples of embedded systems, so maybe I am not off-topic after all &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my mind is not on embedded software, I have various other interests and one, which has given me a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71677,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[302],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-off-topic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9755,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/9755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}