{"id":1303,"date":"2012-08-18T12:04:02","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T16:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2012-08-18T12:04:02","modified_gmt":"2012-08-18T16:04:02","slug":"garden-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=1303","title":{"rendered":"Garden Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday, I spent some time in Joan&#8217;s garden photographing the flowers. I explored many individual blossoms and many angles of view and pretty much filled a memory card.<\/p>\n<p>On reviewing the images, I was disappointed; none of the images were compelling&#8230; too much color! Despite the &#8220;good light&#8221; (it was mostly cloudy), the flowers were too bright and gaudy for my tastes.<\/p>\n<p>After awhile, I realized that the most interesting aspect of the flowers were the patterns and textures. So I chose three &#8220;head on&#8221; shots and turned to black and white. These images are highly processed (much more heavily than my usual work); mainly to bring out the textures.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n<p>[singlepic id=1109 w=900 h=300 ]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday, I spent some time in Joan&#8217;s garden photographing the flowers. I explored many individual blossoms and many angles of view and pretty much filled a memory card. On reviewing the images, I was disappointed; none of the images were compelling&#8230; too much color! Despite the &#8220;good light&#8221; (it was mostly cloudy), the flowers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden-flowers","tag-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1314,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions\/1314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}