{"id":2684,"date":"2013-07-22T09:09:17","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T15:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thmsblog.com\/?p=2684"},"modified":"2013-07-22T09:29:28","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T15:29:28","slug":"how-to-cure-a-gas-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/?p=2684","title":{"rendered":"How to Cure a GAS Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

I ran across an interesting read in a Photography blog called F\/8 (f-stopeight.com)<\/a> written by Olivier Duong. I had an immediate impression about his style of high contrast B&W photography. I think it is interesting but just not my bag. It works for him and that is all that matters. \u00a0What I do like is what he has to SAY<\/b> in his blog about photography and his case of GAS, and that is spot on.<\/p>\n

His story is a line about Gear Acquisition Syndrome he acronyms to G.A.S. and having G.A.S. attacks. What he writes about is using \u201cSelf Talk<\/a>\u201d as a justification and it sure hit home with me. I experience self talk all the time, but I almost always talk myself out of the mistake.<\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t gone overboard on camera gear, but I easily could. I may be close to the addiction edge on machine tools, computers and other hobbies. In fact I see where what Oliver has to say reaches far beyond his world of photography to many other acquisition addictions.<\/p>\n

I like that Oliver doesn’t knock gear acquisition per se, but only when it conflicts with his intention of becoming a great photographer. It\u2019s a confession of a camera gear addict that has found a way back to sanity, like a recovering alcoholic.<\/p>\n

His words ring true. GAS is an addiction and like all bad habits, can\u2019t be erased, but they can be replaced with a different response. \u00a0Go read what he has written. Ignore he is writing about camera gear. You may as I did, see a part of yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I ran across an interesting read in a Photography blog called F\/8 (f-stopeight.com) written by Olivier Duong. I had an immediate impression about his style of high contrast B&W photography. I think it is interesting but just not my bag. It works for him and that is all that matters. \u00a0What I do like is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[69,125],"class_list":["post-2684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","tag-change","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/77778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}