{"id":19796,"date":"2014-11-22T19:01:45","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T00:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/?page_id=19796"},"modified":"2014-11-22T19:01:45","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T00:01:45","slug":"greetings-from-glen-staflund","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/?page_id=19796","title":{"rendered":"GREETINGS FROM GLEN STAFLUND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Glen-Stzflund.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-19797\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Glen-Stzflund-121x150.jpg?resize=121%2C150\" alt=\"Glen Stzflund\" width=\"121\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Glen-Stzflund.jpg?resize=121%2C150&amp;ssl=1 121w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Glen-Stzflund.jpg?resize=243%2C300&amp;ssl=1 243w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Glen-Stzflund.jpg?resize=831%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 831w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Glen-Stzflund.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Glen-Stzflund.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 121px) 100vw, 121px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>Thanks for your invitation.\u00a0 I and my wife spend winters in Florida, so we will be gone from Ottawa by Nov 18.<\/p>\n<p>I was a member of the RA Camera Club (as it was then called) for five years in the late 1970s.\u00a0 When I joined I knew little about photography. I didn&#8217;t even know what &#8220;composition&#8221; meant, and had no feel for it.\u00a0 Now I consider myself to be quite a good photographer.\u00a0 The club changed my life.\u00a0 Recently I was asked to be the official photographer at an event at my condominium.\u00a0 The pictures are not award winners, but the event was well covered.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t expect to be rejoining the club, but I certainly have a soft spot in my heart for you people. It&#8217;s interesting to read that Robert Laram\u00e9e and Catherine Kelly are still members.<\/p>\n<p>Glen Staflund<br \/>\nChairperson, RA Camera Club (1978-79)<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><span class='ldc-ul_cont' onclick=\"alter_ul_post_values(this,'19796','like')\" >Likes<img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/like-dislike-counter-for-posts-pages-and-comments\/images\/up.png?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>(<span>1<\/span>)<\/span><span class='ldc-ul_cont' onclick=\"alter_ul_post_values(this,'19796','dislike')\" >Dislikes<img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/like-dislike-counter-for-posts-pages-and-comments\/images\/down.png?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>(<span>0<\/span>)<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for your invitation.\u00a0 I and my wife spend winters in Florida, so we will be gone from Ottawa by Nov 18. I was a member of the RA Camera Club (as it was then called) for five years in the late 1970s.\u00a0 When I joined I knew little about photography. I didn&#8217;t even know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P7qnxV-59i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}