{"id":219580,"date":"2025-12-31T08:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T08:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/219580\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T08:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T08:41:10","slug":"bill-linnane-ive-taken-thousands-of-imperfect-photos-this-year-but-theyre-our-familys-greatest-hits-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/219580\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Linnane: I\u2019ve taken thousands of imperfect photos this year, but they\u2019re our family\u2019s greatest hits of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">My parenting is much like my photography \u2013 around 30pc of the time it works out OK\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The photos may not always be perfect, but they are our highlights. Photo: Picture posed\/Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/96c4878d-8a14-4c04-8de8-78692d523773.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The photos may not always be perfect, but they are our highlights. Photo: Picture posed\/Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Around 20 years ago, I bought my first digital camera. I was never that interested in photography but with my first child only being a toddler, I thought I would get on board with the best technology money could buy to capture all the special moments that life was about to offer me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Sadly, the best quality photographic technology that my money could buy at the time offered me image quality equivalent to that of an Etch A Sketch. It was the early Noughties and digital cameras were either very expensive or very bad, and I ended up with the latter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"My parenting is much like my photography \u2013 around 30pc of the time it works out OK The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,17711,308,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-219580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-bill-linnane","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}