{"id":6730,"date":"2015-09-23T22:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T21:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=6730"},"modified":"2015-09-23T22:15:15","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T21:15:15","slug":"nature_photo_morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2015\/09\/23\/nature_photo_morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature photo morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I knew I would be all exhausted on Sunday from a birthday party for a bunch of semi-wild 5-year-olds. The best way for me to recover from excessive exposure to people is to get away into nature. On my own I would perhaps have driven to some nearby nature reserve. But as a stroke of pure luck, I found a nature photo event for Sunday morning. So I got up at 4:20 and drove all the way to G\u00e5l\u00f6 and then spent 4 hours photographing with a bunch of other photo enthusiasts.<\/p>\n<p>I like nature photography, both landscape and macro, but I struggle with finding the right subjects. The subject needs to be meaningful for me. It&#8217;s hard for me to feel any real enthusiasm about photos taken purely for practise or exercise. Will I care about this photo a year from now? If not, why take it?<\/p>\n<p>In the end I found two subjects\/themes to document.<\/p>\n<p>One was the peacefulness of the sea. A real contrast to the day before. This aspect of the place really embodied the feeling of why I was there.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Nature_photo_morning_sea_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Nature_photo_morning_sea_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Nature_photo_morning_sea_3.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Nature_photo_morning_sea_4.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My other subject was heather. It was almost as characteristic to the place as the sea itself. It&#8217;s a humble, simple plant. It&#8217;s everywhere, and we mostly just step over it and don&#8217;t think about it. I tried to really see it and show it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Nature_photo_morning_heather_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Nature_photo_morning_heather_3.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Nature_photo_morning_heather_2.jpg\" class=\"x4y6\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Nature_photo_morning_heather_4.jpg\" class=\"x4y6\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Nature_photo_morning_heather_5.jpg\" class=\"x4y6\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew I would be all exhausted on Sunday from a birthday party for a bunch of semi-wild 5-year-olds. The best way for me to recover from excessive exposure to people is to get away into nature. On my own I would perhaps have driven to some nearby nature reserve. But as a stroke of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6730"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6736,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730\/revisions\/6736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}