{"id":85,"date":"2011-04-04T01:19:09","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T01:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/?p=85"},"modified":"2011-04-04T01:19:09","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T01:19:09","slug":"march-week-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"March week 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>There is so much color in Golden Gate Park right now that I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to go very far to fill my frame.\u00c2\u00a0 The Japanese Tea garden is especially pretty as the cherry blossoms are coming into full bloom. The Tea Garden was originally developed in 1854 as a Japanese Village for the California Midwinter International Exposition. You can wend your way through the bridges, pools, and statuary and take in the lush plantings of trees and flowers before stopping in the tea house for refreshment.<\/p>\n

I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make it that far, because I found wonderful blossoms outside.\u00c2\u00a0 This one was early morning, still wet from fog which had cleared to revel some very beautiful blue skies.\u00c2\u00a0 I used the on camera flash with a diffuser over it.\u00c2\u00a0 I took my meter reading first at aperture priority f\/22 and the camera told me I needed a shutter speed of 1\/8 of a second.\u00c2\u00a0 So I set these in the manual setting and added fill flash.<\/p>\n

Although many of the cherry blossoms are pink or at least pink around the edges and the buds, I liked the almost completely white of this grouping as well as its almost s-shaped cluster.\u00c2\u00a0 Also I wanted to show part of the branch and trunk to keep it in context.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The end of March and early April the Red Winged Black Birds in the Marin headlands begin their couting rituals.\u00c2\u00a0 Their songs and beautiful colorations signal spring and the joyousness of the season.\u00c2\u00a0 I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know why, but their songs remind me of the music of Hidegard von Bingen \u00e2\u20ac\u201c one of the most remarkable women of the Middle Ages \u00e2\u20ac\u201c visionary, mystic, composer, naturalist\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.<\/p>\n

The scrubs and the reeds of the marshes are the red winged black bird\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153monastery\u00e2\u20ac\u009d where they present their own experiences of the Holy Other. \u00c2\u00a0They are very common and tend to be over looked by photographers.\u00c2\u00a0 But do join them in their cattail dominion!<\/p>\n

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There is so much color in Golden Gate Park right now that I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to go very far to fill my frame.\u00c2\u00a0 The Japanese Tea garden is especially pretty as the cherry blossoms are coming into full bloom. The … 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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hkEw-1n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","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=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stacy.awegallery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}