{"id":17778,"date":"2014-05-08T00:01:33","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T07:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=17778"},"modified":"2014-05-08T00:01:33","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T07:01:33","slug":"photo-op-when-the-sun-shines-sideways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/photo-op-when-the-sun-shines-sideways\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Op: When the Sun Shines Sideways"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Writer<\/a>
Six in the afternoon on the first day of May. Photo by BF Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/em><\/p>\n

I took a late afternoon walk in the woods with my point-and-shoot camera the other day. The sun had dropped low in the sky, so the light was soft and it was coming at everything sideways.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
A rainless California winter had left cracks and loose pebbles along the trail. Photo by BF Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
I was trying to capture the beautiful golden color of these grass seedheads when the sun droppped behind some trees and turned them blue-green before my eyes. I didn’t spot the worm at upper left until after I’d downloaded the picture. Photo by BF Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A hiker merged into the soft, end-of-day light. Photo by BF Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

More fun photos from my trusty point-and-shoot at “China’s One-Child Families,”<\/a> \u00a0“For China’s Young Fashionistas, the Cultural Revolution is So Over”<\/a>\u00a0 and\u00a0 “The Funky Charms of East Austin, Texas.”<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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That’s me again, trying to capture the grass and its long shadows. Photo by BF Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Back home, our bower vine in shadow. Photo by BF Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

I took a late afternoon camera walk in the woods the other day. The sun had dropped low in the sky, so the light was soft and was coming at everything sideways. Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1168,1203,34,1204,1205,88,31,32,1206,1207],"class_list":["post-17778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-case-of-the-human-condition","tag-california","tag-camera","tag-dont-miss","tag-drought","tag-hiking","tag-nature","tag-photo-ops","tag-photography","tag-sideways-sunlight","tag-woods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}