{"id":1645,"date":"2013-04-15T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T16:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=1645"},"modified":"2013-04-15T10:07:49","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T14:07:49","slug":"early-spring-a-cruel-time-for-nature-photographers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=1645","title":{"rendered":"Early Spring &#8211; A Cruel Time for Nature Photographers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you hadn&#8217;t noticed, it has been almost a month since my last post. This is because, in New England, March is a lousy time to be a nature photographer. Winter hangs on tenaciously&#8230; well in to April this year&#8230; and the landscape is dreary and drab. Motivation to photograph is low, but yesterday I headed out &#8220;down back&#8221; of the house hoping to find a few good photographs.<\/p>\n<p>The snow is the woods is patchy&#8230; lots of bare ground but many surprisingly deep pockets. When you step on a snowy spot you are never sure if you are going to sink in an inch or a foot&#8230; makes life interesting.<\/p>\n<p>At one point I was standing on a patch of snow for some time when suddenly the snow under my right foot gave way. I found myself knee deep in the snow (on that side only) and, at the bottom of the hole, I felt my boot flooding with ice water! My first thought was to head directly home, but after a couple of minutes my boot was only wet and squishy so I continued to explore and photograph. It was only when I realized, some tens of minutes later, that the toes of my right foot were numb that I called it a day and headed back up the hill.<\/p>\n<p>The last two photos in this set were taken at a local nursery. I accompanied Joan there on Saturday&#8230; methinks that gardeners have feelings about March similar to those of photographers!<\/p>\n<p>[scrollGallery id=189 autoscroll = false width = 600 height = 600 useCaptions = true]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you hadn&#8217;t noticed, it has been almost a month since my last post. This is because, in New England, March is a lousy time to be a nature photographer. Winter hangs on tenaciously&#8230; well in to April this year&#8230; and the landscape is dreary and drab. Motivation to photograph is low, but yesterday [&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":[67,93,92],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-1645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-early-spring","category-landscapes-2","category-monadnock-region","tag-landscapes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645","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=1645"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1652,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions\/1652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}