{"id":26,"date":"2026-08-06T21:18:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T21:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/photographer\/2026\/08\/06\/what-i-pack\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T21:18:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T21:18:34","slug":"what-i-pack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/photographer\/2026\/08\/06\/what-i-pack\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Actually Pack for a Two-Week Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kit lists are boring until you are standing in an airport at five in the morning wondering whether the second body is worth the excess baggage. It is.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Two Bodies, Three Primes<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One body wears the 35mm and stays on my shoulder all day. The second wears the 85mm and lives in the bag until a portrait appears. The 16-35mm comes out for interiors and for the landscape work that pays for the rest of it.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The One Thing That Has Saved Three Shoots<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A twenty-gram card wallet with four spare cards in it, worn on a lanyard rather than packed. Cards fail, cards get full, and cards get left in the reader at the hotel. Nothing else in the bag has rescued a day three times.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two bodies, three primes, more cards than anybody sensibly needs, and the one accessory that has saved three shoots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gear","tag-gear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}