{"id":4242,"date":"2010-11-05T12:43:50","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T17:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=4242"},"modified":"2010-11-05T13:19:07","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T18:19:07","slug":"friday-flower-%e2%80%94-still-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=4242","title":{"rendered":"Friday: flower \u2014 still life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The flowering plants have fallen over,\u00a0wilted,\u00a0dried,\u00a0gone to seed. Very little green remains &#8220;outside&#8221; \u2014 only the pines and some grasses. The days have become short and the light, more often than not, overcast, dull and gray. If I continue to produce a flower photograph each Friday it will require more planning; no longer simply a stroll within so-called nature. From now until spring I&#8217;ll need to travel to a shop and make both economic and aesthetic choices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This morning it was 32 degrees F outside so I decided to shift into this new way of thinking about Friday flowers by bringing one of the last blooms from a porch plant inside for visual exploration. As soon as I dropped the bloom into water the photograph appeared.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(click photograph for larger view)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/L1110205.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4243\" title=\"L1110205\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/L1110205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/L1110205.jpg 797w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/L1110205-93x150.jpg 93w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/L1110205-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/L1110205-637x1024.jpg 637w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Leica R8\/DMR, 100 mm Apo-Macro Elmarit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The flowering plants have fallen over,\u00a0wilted,\u00a0dried,\u00a0gone to seed. Very little green remains &#8220;outside&#8221; \u2014 only the pines and some grasses. The days have become short and the light, more often than not, overcast, dull and gray. If I continue to produce a flower photograph each Friday it will require more planning; no longer simply a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,65,19,17,29,50,39,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flora","category-gear","category-hand-made","category-photography","category-self-expression","category-still-life","category-things","category-up-close","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4242"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4254,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242\/revisions\/4254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}