{"id":617069,"date":"2009-12-31T15:02:20","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T20:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2010642241_thankyouseattletimesphotographers.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2009-12-31T15:02:20","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T20:02:20","slug":"thank-you-seattle-times-photographers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/617069","title":{"rendered":"Thank you, Seattle Times photographers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Inspiring selection of 2009 review<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Editor, The Times:<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for the article in Sunday\u2019s Pacific Northwest magazine about Seattle Times photographers [\u201cPictures of the Year 2009,\u201d Dec. 27]. It was interesting to read how they first got interested in their craft.<\/p>\n<p>The Seattle Times photographers are an amazingly talented group of people. It is always a pleasure to view their work in the paper. I often find myself lingering over a photograph, either admiring its beauty, sharing in its humor, or experiencing its raw emotions.<\/p>\n<p>The pictures are often worth many more times than a thousand words.<\/p>\n<p>When I lived in the Bay Area, it was always interesting to view Steve Ringman\u2019s profound work in the San Francisco Chronicle. When I moved up here, it was a pleasant surprise to discover that he was working for The Times.<\/p>\n<p>Several years ago I was so moved by a stunning photograph Greg Gilbert had taken of the Bainbridge Island ferry coming out of the fog with the Olympic Mountains as a backdrop, I called The Times to purchase a copy of the photo.<\/p>\n<p>Gilbert came by on his motorcycle to personally drop it off.<\/p>\n<p>Only in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Dave Richards, Bainbridge Island<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspiring selection of 2009 review Editor, The Times: Thank you for the article in Sunday\u2019s Pacific Northwest magazine about Seattle Times photographers [\u201cPictures of the Year 2009,\u201d Dec. 27]. It was interesting to read how they first got interested in their craft. The Seattle Times photographers are an amazingly talented group of people. It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-617069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2AwJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}