{"id":512,"date":"2012-10-17T04:36:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T04:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/?p=512"},"modified":"2012-10-17T16:42:04","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T16:42:04","slug":"october-week-2-a-post-card-thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/?p=512","title":{"rendered":"October week 2 &#8211; A Post-card Thank You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Oct-wk-2-Grapes02-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-513\" title=\"Oct wk 2 - Grapes02  web\" src=\"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Oct-wk-2-Grapes02-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Oct-wk-2-Grapes02-web.jpg 333w, http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Oct-wk-2-Grapes02-web-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a>I have said it before: photography for me is a form of visual spirituality.\u00c2\u00a0 Creating and then revisiting images are powerful means of meditation.\u00c2\u00a0 Of meditation, in her book \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<strong><em>Crones Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Whine<\/em><\/strong>,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeanshinodabolen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Jean Shinoda Bolen<\/a> says: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Heartfulness and meditation come together in the instant we really see and appreciate something beautiful, and in this moment send the equivalent of a prayer as a postcard thank-you, as we let the beauty in.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>For example it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a meditative art to seeing the beauty on and around the grapevine.\u00c2\u00a0 In capturing the art on the vine with your camera, the possibilities are endless.\u00c2\u00a0 But there are six invaluable techniques that can be remembered easily with the acronym <strong>GRAPES<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Oct-wk-2-Grapes01-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-514\" title=\"Oct wk 2 - Grapes01 web\" src=\"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Oct-wk-2-Grapes01-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Oct-wk-2-Grapes01-web.jpg 342w, http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Oct-wk-2-Grapes01-web-205x300.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><\/a>G<\/span><\/strong>et in close<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">R<\/span><\/strong>eflectors<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A<\/span><\/strong>perture<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">P<\/span><\/strong>olarize<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">E<\/span><\/strong>xposure<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">S<\/span><\/strong>pritz<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t always apply all of these techniques.\u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes the clumps look best with a little bit of water and sometimes not (Spritz).\u00c2\u00a0 Regardless,\u00c2\u00a0 you always want to pay close attention to the use of light when choosing your composition!\u00c2\u00a0 Water drops in your image can help with your focus and give life to your shot!<\/p>\n<p>Although harvesting begins in August for some grapes, I enjoy the last crushing because the leaves are more colorful in October and into November.\u00c2\u00a0 Even after the harvesting you can find clumps of grapes here and there and your presence in the vineyards isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t as intrusive or threatening to the vines and growers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_515\" style=\"width: 301px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Oct-wk-2-GrapesZoom-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-515\" class=\" wp-image-515 \" title=\"Oct wk 2 - GrapesZoom web\" src=\"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Oct-wk-2-GrapesZoom-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Oct-wk-2-GrapesZoom-web.jpg 364w, http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Oct-wk-2-GrapesZoom-web-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-515\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Add Neutral Density Filters and Zoom<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When grapes remain longer on the vine it gives them a higher sugar content needed for certain kinds of wines so this harvest will often happen when the leaves are turning colors.<\/p>\n<p>These images are my thank-you postcards for entering the beauty of mother earth through my images!<\/p>\n<p>You may taste wine blindfolded to enhance your experience.\u00c2\u00a0 But when you go to the wine country you will journey with eyes wide open \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the images you create will rival all others.\u00c2\u00a0 If you haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t looked at my portfolio \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a title=\"art on vine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.awegallery.com\/index.php?page=artists&amp;gal=46\" target=\"_blank\">Art on the Vine<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201c go to it.\u00c2\u00a0 Stop by the AWE gallery at 678 Portola Dr. sometime and I will be happy to flesh out the G. R. A. P. E. S. methods for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have said it before: photography for me is a form of visual spirituality.\u00c2\u00a0 Creating and then revisiting images are powerful means of meditation.\u00c2\u00a0 Of meditation, in her book \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Crones Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Whine,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Jean Shinoda Bolen says: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Heartfulness and meditation come &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/?p=512\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[17,19,18,20],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-2","tag-grapes-vineyards","tag-napa","tag-sonoma","tag-wine-country"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hkEw-8g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}