{"id":12330,"date":"2017-08-08T05:39:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T10:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=12330"},"modified":"2017-08-07T15:39:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T20:39:28","slug":"photos-of-the-day-coneflowers-six-ways-and-a-rogue-clematis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2017\/08\/08\/photos-of-the-day-coneflowers-six-ways-and-a-rogue-clematis\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos of the day: Coneflowers six ways and a rogue clematis"},"content":{"rendered":"

O<\/span>f all the things in nature, save for maybe PEI beaches, I think I have more photographs of coneflowers than anything else. There’s something about them, like sunflowers, that I just can’t resist. Heaven is 30 minutes in my garden on a quiet Sunday morning, creeping around them and playing with angles — and then hours spent with Lightroom and Photoshop, satisfying my curiosity on the question “I wonder what would happen if I tried this<\/em>. Oooo, how about this<\/em>?”<\/p>\n

Apparently, THIS is what happens:<\/p>\n

\"Coneflower<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Coneflower<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Coneflower<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Coneflower<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Coneflower<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Coneflower<\/a><\/p>\n

This next one, the observant viewer will notice, is not a coneflower. Somehow, a rogue clematis caught my attention. Isn’t it a little late in the season for clematis? Regardless, I loved the dreamy effect of the very shallow depth of field and the way the leaves seem to swirl around the purple centre.<\/p>\n

\"Coneflower<\/a><\/p>\n

You think this is repetitive? You should see the other 114 variations on my hard drive!<\/p>\n

Do you have a favourite? The more I look at it, the more I think maybe that first one might be wall-worthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Of all the things in nature, save for maybe PEI beaches, I think I have more photographs of coneflowers than anything else. There’s something about them, like sunflowers, that I just can’t resist. Heaven is 30 minutes in my garden on a quiet Sunday morning, creeping around them and playing with angles — and then … Continue reading “Photos of the day: Coneflowers six ways and a rogue clematis”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12330"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12334,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12330\/revisions\/12334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}