{"id":3059,"date":"2021-06-02T18:00:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T18:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/?p=3059"},"modified":"2021-06-02T18:00:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T18:00:27","slug":"day-81-lavender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/?p=3059","title":{"rendered":"Day 81 &#8211; Lavender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" src=\"http:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/wp-content\/gallery\/creativity\/lavender.jpg\" alt=\"lavender\"><\/p>\n<p>So, the lavender is just starting to bloom around the &#8216;hood. Sometimes I have to ask myself what is creative about another flower picture. Here&#8217;s what myself answered. I had to chose the lens to put on the camera: I chose the Velvet 28 because I wanted to isolate a single flower against a blurred purple background. I had to chose the aperture. I chose f4 so the background would be blurred but the flower would be mostly in focus. I had to chose where to focus. I noticed the little flower open and chose to focus right on it. When I got it back in the computer I chose to crop it a little for a slightly improved composition. I also chose to go out looking for lavender this day. So, yes, I guess there are a lot of creative choices to be made even it what looks like just another simple flower photo.<\/p>\n<p>Again from Julia Cameron today:<\/p>\n<p><em>By insisting to ourselves that beauty is present even on those days when we cannot see it, we make the beauty in the world more real.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the lavender is just starting to bloom around the &#8216;hood. Sometimes I have to ask myself what is creative about another flower picture. Here&#8217;s what myself answered. I had to chose the lens to put on the camera: I chose the Velvet 28 because I wanted to isolate a single flower against a blurred &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/?p=3059\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Day 81 &#8211; Lavender<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,34,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flora","category-lensbaby","category-spring"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3060,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059\/revisions\/3060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}