{"id":516,"date":"2025-12-27T23:07:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T23:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/?page_id=516"},"modified":"2025-12-28T00:03:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T00:03:01","slug":"thoughts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts, Etc."},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"516\" class=\"elementor elementor-516\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has-el-gap el-gap-default elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6b377ec elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6b377ec\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-147b56f\" data-id=\"147b56f\" 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src=\"https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2014-07-Among-Spirits-smwm-450x563.jpg\" class=\"attachment-bunyad-medium size-bunyad-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" title=\"New Gear&#8230;Now What?\" srcset=\"https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2014-07-Among-Spirits-smwm-450x563.jpg 450w, https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2014-07-Among-Spirits-smwm-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2014-07-Among-Spirits-smwm-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2014-07-Among-Spirits-smwm-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2014-07-Among-Spirits-smwm-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2014-07-Among-Spirits-smwm-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2014-07-Among-Spirits-smwm-1200x1500.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2014-07-Among-Spirits-smwm.jpg 1920w\" \/><\/a>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\t<div class=\"content\">\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"post-meta post-meta-a has-below\"><h3 class=\"is-title post-title limit-lines l-lines-2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/2026\/04\/03\/new-gear-now-what\/\">New Gear&#8230;Now What?<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"post-meta-items meta-below\"><span class=\"meta-item post-cat\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/category\/thoughts\/\" class=\"category term-color-5\" rel=\"category\">Thoughts<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"meta-item post-author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/author\/dtnorth\/\" title=\"Posts by D. Travis North\" rel=\"author\">D. Travis North<\/a><\/span><span class=\"meta-item has-next-icon date\"><span class=\"date-link\"><time class=\"post-date\" datetime=\"2026-04-03T03:21:53+00:00\">April 3, 2026<\/time><\/span><\/span><span class=\"meta-item read-time has-icon\"><i class=\"tsi tsi-clock\"><\/i>8 Mins Read<\/span><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"excerpt\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p>Today we&#8217;re going to talk about new gear.\u00a0 Maybe it&#8217;s a new camera, or a new lens.\u00a0 There are plenty of opportunities over the years to grab some new gear for yourself.\u00a0 But when is it right to upgrade your gear?\u00a0 What do you do when you get it? The&hellip;<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n<article class=\"l-post list-post list-post-on-sm m-pos-left\">\n\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"media\">\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/2026\/01\/17\/photography-of-someone-elses-work-details-matter\/\" class=\"image-link media-ratio ratio-is-custom\" title=\"Photography of&#8230;Someone Else&#8217;s Work?  Details Matter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"330\" height=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2018-03-22-dtn-LP-PH-5-450x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-bunyad-medium size-bunyad-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"Louis Poulsen PH 5\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" title=\"Photography of&#8230;Someone Else&#8217;s Work?  Details Matter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2018-03-22-dtn-LP-PH-5-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2018-03-22-dtn-LP-PH-5-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2018-03-22-dtn-LP-PH-5-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2018-03-22-dtn-LP-PH-5-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2018-03-22-dtn-LP-PH-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2018-03-22-dtn-LP-PH-5-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2018-03-22-dtn-LP-PH-5-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2018-03-22-dtn-LP-PH-5-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" \/><\/a>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\t<div class=\"content\">\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"post-meta post-meta-a has-below\"><h3 class=\"is-title post-title limit-lines l-lines-2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/2026\/01\/17\/photography-of-someone-elses-work-details-matter\/\">Photography of&#8230;Someone Else&#8217;s Work?  Details Matter<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"post-meta-items meta-below\"><span class=\"meta-item post-cat\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/category\/thoughts\/\" class=\"category term-color-5\" rel=\"category\">Thoughts<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"meta-item post-author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/author\/dtnorth\/\" title=\"Posts by D. Travis North\" rel=\"author\">D. Travis North<\/a><\/span><span class=\"meta-item has-next-icon date\"><span class=\"date-link\"><time class=\"post-date\" datetime=\"2026-01-17T01:39:16+00:00\">January 17, 2026<\/time><\/span><\/span><span class=\"meta-item read-time has-icon\"><i class=\"tsi tsi-clock\"><\/i>2 Mins Read<\/span><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"excerpt\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p>So here&#8217;s an odd aspect of Photography:\u00a0 At some point, you will often take photos of someone else&#8217;s creations.\u00a0 Maybe you&#8217;re photographing of architecture, or a sculpture in a broad landscape.\u00a0 That landscape may have been man-made, created by someone hired to create such a landscape.\u00a0 Maybe in that landscape,&hellip;<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n<article class=\"l-post list-post list-post-on-sm m-pos-left\">\n\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"media\">\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/2025\/12\/27\/creativity-is-not-a-constant\/\" class=\"image-link media-ratio ratio-is-custom\" title=\"Creativity Is Not A Constant\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"330\" height=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/NoWords-2018-02-450x450.jpg\" class=\"attachment-bunyad-medium size-bunyad-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"No Words - 2018, No. 2\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" title=\"Creativity Is Not A Constant\" srcset=\"https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/NoWords-2018-02-450x450.jpg 450w, https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/NoWords-2018-02-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/NoWords-2018-02-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/NoWords-2018-02-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/NoWords-2018-02-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/NoWords-2018-02-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/NoWords-2018-02-1200x1200.jpg 1200w\" \/><\/a>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\t<div class=\"content\">\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"post-meta post-meta-a has-below\"><h3 class=\"is-title post-title limit-lines l-lines-2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/2025\/12\/27\/creativity-is-not-a-constant\/\">Creativity Is Not A Constant<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"post-meta-items meta-below\"><span class=\"meta-item post-cat\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/category\/photography\/learning\/\" class=\"category term-color-148\" rel=\"category\">Learning<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"meta-item post-author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/author\/dtnorth\/\" title=\"Posts by D. Travis North\" rel=\"author\">D. Travis North<\/a><\/span><span class=\"meta-item has-next-icon date\"><span class=\"date-link\"><time class=\"post-date\" datetime=\"2025-12-27T05:27:08+00:00\">December 27, 2025<\/time><\/span><\/span><span class=\"meta-item read-time has-icon\"><i class=\"tsi tsi-clock\"><\/i>3 Mins Read<\/span><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"excerpt\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p>As I look back over the decades of creative endeavors, there&#8217;s one thing I really wish I had understood when I was just getting started on my creative path:\u00a0 Creativity is not a constant.\u00a0 There are ups and downs, twists and turns.\u00a0 Sometimes things go smoothly.\u00a0 Sometimes you take several&hellip;<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n<article class=\"l-post list-post list-post-on-sm m-pos-left\">\n\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"media\">\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/2024\/04\/04\/exposure-triangle-exposed\/\" class=\"image-link media-ratio ratio-is-custom\" title=\"Exposure Triangle Exposed\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"330\" height=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2017-12-Quarantine-Day-38-smwm-450x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-bunyad-medium size-bunyad-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" title=\"Exposure Triangle Exposed\" srcset=\"https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2017-12-Quarantine-Day-38-smwm-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2017-12-Quarantine-Day-38-smwm-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2017-12-Quarantine-Day-38-smwm-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2017-12-Quarantine-Day-38-smwm-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2017-12-Quarantine-Day-38-smwm-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2017-12-Quarantine-Day-38-smwm-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2017-12-Quarantine-Day-38-smwm.jpg 1280w\" \/><\/a>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\t<div class=\"content\">\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"post-meta post-meta-a has-below\"><h3 class=\"is-title post-title limit-lines l-lines-2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/2024\/04\/04\/exposure-triangle-exposed\/\">Exposure Triangle Exposed<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"post-meta-items meta-below\"><span class=\"meta-item post-cat\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/category\/photography\/learning\/\" class=\"category term-color-148\" rel=\"category\">Learning<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"meta-item post-author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/author\/dtnorth\/\" title=\"Posts by D. Travis North\" rel=\"author\">D. Travis North<\/a><\/span><span class=\"meta-item has-next-icon date\"><span class=\"date-link\"><time class=\"post-date\" datetime=\"2024-04-04T01:57:50+00:00\">April 4, 2024<\/time><\/span><\/span><span class=\"meta-item read-time has-icon\"><i class=\"tsi tsi-clock\"><\/i>9 Mins Read<\/span><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"excerpt\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p>Photography is a beautiful art. It is also a technical one. You can create some fantastic images with composition alone. But if you want icing on that cake, you want to experiment with the Exposure Triangle. Photography is unfortunately tied to the laws of physics, so there are limitations in&hellip;<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n<article class=\"l-post list-post list-post-on-sm m-pos-left\">\n\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"media\">\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/2024\/03\/16\/camera-modes-overview\/\" class=\"image-link media-ratio ratio-is-custom\" title=\"Camera Modes Overview\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"330\" height=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2012-10-looking-back-450x301.jpg\" class=\"attachment-bunyad-medium size-bunyad-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" title=\"Camera Modes Overview\" srcset=\"https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2012-10-looking-back-450x301.jpg 450w, https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2012-10-looking-back-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2012-10-looking-back-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2012-10-looking-back-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2012-10-looking-back-1536x1028.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2012-10-looking-back-2048x1371.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2012-10-looking-back-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2012-10-looking-back-1200x803.jpg 1200w\" \/><\/a>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\t<div class=\"content\">\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"post-meta post-meta-a has-below\"><h3 class=\"is-title post-title limit-lines l-lines-2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/2024\/03\/16\/camera-modes-overview\/\">Camera Modes Overview<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"post-meta-items meta-below\"><span class=\"meta-item post-cat\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/category\/photography\/learning\/\" class=\"category term-color-148\" rel=\"category\">Learning<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"meta-item post-author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/4north.net\/inspired\/author\/dtnorth\/\" title=\"Posts by D. Travis North\" rel=\"author\">D. Travis North<\/a><\/span><span class=\"meta-item has-next-icon date\"><span class=\"date-link\"><time class=\"post-date\" datetime=\"2024-03-16T00:50:13+00:00\">March 16, 2024<\/time><\/span><\/span><span class=\"meta-item read-time has-icon\"><i class=\"tsi tsi-clock\"><\/i>9 Mins Read<\/span><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"excerpt\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p>Your camera likely has many modes.  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