{"id":63,"date":"2009-05-31T10:39:17","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T16:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"e6ee180b-b51d-4ccd-a3e2-df98e5c24795"},"modified":"2011-05-05T11:45:48","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T17:45:48","slug":"seeds-of-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/2009\/05\/seeds-of-creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeds of Creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_111\" style=\"width: 395px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-111\" href=\"http:\/\/www.williamneill.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/05\/seeds-of-creativity\/200905_0025\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-111\" class=\"size-full wp-image-111\" title=\"Seeds of Creativity\" src=\"http:\/\/www.williamneill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/200905_0025.jpg\" alt=\"Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III__EF50mm f\/2.5 Compact=\" width=\"385\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/200905_0025.jpg 385w, https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/200905_0025-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-111\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III__EF50mm f\/2.5 Compact Macro__1\/180 sec at f \/ 2.5__ISO 100<\/p><\/div>\n<p>What do you do when you need to get your creative juices going?<\/p>\n<p>I find myself gravitating to some the same subjects over the years.  I have photographed salsify seeds often, and love the patterns of the seeds.   On Friday evening I noticed some nice sunset clouds that would make a good backdrop.  I made 265 images as the sun set and the clouds changed colors!  I made many versions that were quite similar to past efforts, like this small one above.  But I kept trying to think of a fresh composition.  I decided to try a broader view, the top image above, and l found it was my favorite.<\/p>\n<p>Let me know your thoughts!<\/p>\n<p>Bill<\/p>\n<p>I am currently offering two <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betterphoto.com\/courseInstructor.asp%253FcspID%253D168\">BetterPhoto.com<\/a> courses.  The four week course starts on Wednesday June 3.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.betterphoto.com\/courseOverview.asp%253FcspID%253D168\">NEW! Inspiring Nature Photography: The Essentials (four week course)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.betterphoto.com\/photocourses\/BIL01.asp\">Portfolio Development Course (eight week course)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you do when you need to get your creative juices going? I find myself gravitating to some the same subjects over the years. I have photographed salsify seeds often, and love the patterns of the seeds. On Friday&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/2009\/05\/seeds-of-creativity\/\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","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=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2217,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/2217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamneill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}