{"id":5583,"date":"2017-02-14T10:30:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T18:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.williamneill.com\/blog\/?p=5583"},"modified":"2017-02-14T10:30:52","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T18:30:52","slug":"an-extraordinary-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/an-extraordinary-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"An Extraordinary Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- This default template simply inserts each image into the page --><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5586\" src=\"http:\/\/www.williamneill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/HeartRock-2-375x500.jpg\" alt=\"HeartRock-2\" width=\"197\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/HeartRock-2-375x500.jpg 375w, https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/HeartRock-2-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/HeartRock-2.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/>Sad News From Yosemite: Saturday I visited Upper Cascades Falls with a private student. I checked out a favorite subject &#8211; a small alder tree growing out of a split boulder in the middle of the falls. The powerful storms that recently hit Yosemite, and subsequent flooding, has knocked down this tree, ending its epic struggle to survive in this most precarious of footholds. My favorite photograph of is shown here and attached an iPhone snap made Saturday. In the crack of the rock, you can see a small log that washed down the falls and possibly smashed down the small Adler. Perhaps the root system survives, and it shall rise again!<\/p>\n<p>For more information about my Private Yosemite Workshops, click <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.williamneill.com\/one-on-one-workshops\/yosemite_private_workshops.html\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.williamneill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/201611_7542-Edit__\u00a9-William-Neill-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rock, Tree and Waterfall, Yosemite National Park, California 2016<br \/>\nSONY-ILCE-7RM2, 70-200mm F2.8,<br \/>\n2 second at f\/19, ISO 100<br \/>\n11\/1\/16 7:46:51 AM<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!-- This default template simply inserts each image into the page --><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.williamneill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/201107_9938-Edit__\u00a9-William-Neill-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nRock, Water and Tree, Cascade Falls, Yosemite National Park, California 2011<br \/>\nCanon-Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, EF70-200mm f\/2.8L USM,<br \/>\n1\/2 second at f\/27, ISO 320<br \/>\n7\/8\/11 7:28:32 PM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sad News From Yosemite: Saturday I visited Upper Cascades Falls with a private student. I checked out a favorite subject &#8211; a small alder tree growing out of a split boulder in the middle of the falls. The powerful storms&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/an-extraordinary-tree\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landscape-photography"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5583"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5594,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5583\/revisions\/5594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}