{"id":600,"date":"2013-03-18T02:54:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T02:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/?p=600"},"modified":"2013-03-18T02:54:10","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T02:54:10","slug":"march-week-2-yellow-and-orange-balm-of-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/?p=600","title":{"rendered":"March Week 2 – Yellow and Orange, Balm of Healing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"March2-Poppy008Web\"<\/a>Interior Designers tell us the beautiful warm colors of yellow and orange go well together.\u00c2\u00a0 You only need to look at the coastal poppies to know that.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps these colors which call spring out of the earth and us also bring their own balm of healing.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Yellow and orange seem to have a special nature that signals both comfort and vibrant emotions.<\/p>\n

Although you can find some poppies blooming somewhere all year long in California, this time of year in the Bay Area you begin to see them more plentiful coast side and urban street side.\u00c2\u00a0 They even have their own song.<\/p>\n

\"March2-Poppy001<\/a>California Poppy Song<\/address>\n
\u00c2\u00a0<\/address>\n
Poppies, golden Poppies, gleaming in the sun,<\/address>\n
Closing up at evening, when the day is done.<\/address>\n
Pride of California, flower of our state<\/address>\n
Growing from the mountains, to the Golden Gate.<\/address>\n
\u00c2\u00a0<\/address>\n
Flower of the hillside, flower of the plain.<\/address>\n
Flower of the sunshine, flower of the rain.<\/address>\n
California\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s children, be they far or near,<\/address>\n
Love the golden poppy, of our state so dear.<\/address>\n
\u00c2\u00a0<\/address>\n

For some years I felt a little intimidated trying to make poppies one of my main focuses.\u00c2\u00a0 After all I was living in the same state with the poppy photographer par-excellence. \u00c2\u00a0Although George Lepp no longer resides in California his legacy of poppy photography is still in the very air we breathe.\u00c2\u00a0 But after learning many techniques from George Lepp I am finally confident that I have my own vision of the art of the poppy.<\/p>\n

The images I am sharing from this past week were taken at Kehoe Beach in Point Reyes National Seashore where you can usually find some of the first of the wildflower shows.\u00c2\u00a0 They weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t quite there yet, although some lovely individual blossoms and groups of coast poppies were prominent.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 While the California Poppy is one shade of orange the coastal are both yellow and orange.<\/p>\n

\"March2-BabyBlue<\/a>Wanting to just capture the feel of the colors I choose to get in close using a 100mm macro lens and a shallow depth of field so only a small selection of the composition was in focus.\u00c2\u00a0 The wind usually blows pretty strongly in this location even early in the morning.\u00c2\u00a0 So using a shallow depth of field (here 2.8) you can obtain a pretty fast shutter speed.\u00c2\u00a0 You just have to be careful that the intended point of focus is not blown out of its position.<\/p>\n

Yellow and Orange remind me of the painting \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mother and Daughter\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Meinrad Craighead.<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 It is on the cover of her book \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Mother Songs -Images of God the Mother.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 It may be more red and yellow, because the shared fruit between the mother and daughter is a pomegranate, but nonetheless the two looking eye to eye have the comfort and challenge that the yellow and orange need to bring to us this day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Interior Designers tell us the beautiful warm colors of yellow and orange go well together.\u00c2\u00a0 You only need to look at the coastal poppies to know that.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps these colors which call spring out of the earth and us also … Continue reading →<\/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":[75,76,77],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-2","tag-california-poppy","tag-coastal-poppy","tag-pt-reyes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hkEw-9G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","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=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}