{"id":4225,"date":"2025-03-01T22:33:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T14:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/?p=4225"},"modified":"2025-03-02T11:26:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T03:26:40","slug":"ten-years-of-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/2025\/03\/01\/ten-years-of-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten years of blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was ten years ago that I started this photography weblog with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/2015\/03\/02\/welcome\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">welcome post<\/a>. What a lot has happened since then! Remarkably, my photographic equipment and process remains essentially the same as a decade ago; I am still shooting with my Nikon D70S and Nikon D700, and I think the only lens I have added is the Nikkor AF-S 70\u2013200 mm f\/2.8 telephoto zoom lens. In terms of martial arts, I was already a longstanding member of Rhee Tae Kwon-Do, but then resigned and moved to First Tae Kwon Do, and last year resigned and established <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ywo.net.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my own tae kwon do school<\/a>. Through it all, I am grateful to say, God has continued to watch over me and my family.<\/p>\n<p>Checking visitor statistics for this blog, there have been around 30,000 visitors over the decade, making around 126,600 visits to this website. If you are a regular visitor reading this, I hope my writing has been of interest and value to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was ten years ago that I started this photography weblog with a welcome post. What a lot has happened since then! Remarkably, my photographic equipment and process remains essentially the same as a decade ago; I am still shooting with my Nikon D70S and Nikon D700, and I think the only lens I have&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/2025\/03\/01\/ten-years-of-blogging\/\" class=\"read-more\" title=\"Ten years of blogging\"><span>Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text sr-only\">Ten years of blogging<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[278,47,70,58,162,161,30,22,260],"class_list":["post-4225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-ftkd","tag-god","tag-martial-arts","tag-nikkor-afs-70-200-2-8-vr-ii","tag-nikon-d700","tag-nikon-d70s","tag-photographic-equipment","tag-rtkd","tag-tkd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4225"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4234,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225\/revisions\/4234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}