{"id":1373,"date":"2009-08-11T12:02:14","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T22:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lundgrenphotos.com\/blog\/?p=1373"},"modified":"2009-10-04T06:26:36","modified_gmt":"2009-10-04T16:26:36","slug":"photo-of-the-day-august-11th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lundgrenphotos.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/08\/11\/photo-of-the-day-august-11th\/","title":{"rendered":"PHOTO OF THE DAY – August 11th"},"content":{"rendered":"

HEROES<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I met a wonderful woman today, her name is Martha.<\/p>\n

Martha came to my rescue. Martha is truly my “hero of the day”!<\/p>\n

One of my errands included a stop at the Michael’s Store<\/a> in Goleta, CA. I was fortunate enough to park directly in front of the store proper, which has a beautiful corrugated steel fronting and four square vine-ridden posts with these small star-shaped white flowers on them.<\/p>\n

All but the one I parked in front of were healthy and living – the one I parked in front of had dead vines wrapped around it, but the flowers were going strong. The contrast of organic against corrugated steel was stark and ripe for photographing – so out comes the camera!<\/p>\n

And since I am not always in a standing position when I photograph – it can look rather precarious sometimes when a grown woman with a camera is being a contortionist in order to ‘get the picture’ . . . or remove background clutter – in camera.<\/p>\n

\"dead

dead potato vine wrapped around corrugated steel and terra-cotta posts<\/p><\/div>\n

\"a

a better angle<\/p><\/div>\n

. . . . or get a different color backdrop by changing the position of ones body angle relative to the flowers, as with the next few images.<\/p>\n

\"love

love the purple-ish background<\/p><\/div>\n

\"and

and this terra-cotta colored background<\/p><\/div>\n

\"and

as well as this green backdrop<\/p><\/div>\n

I think it was about this time that Martha stopped and asked something like why I was taking pictures of dead potato vine when there were living ones on the three other posts.<\/p>\n

Thank you Martha! I now have a name for a flower! How many blog-posts have I added over the past several months that I have had no clue as to the name of the flowers or trees? Martha is my “hero” today and I am very grateful that she took the time to stop and be curious about what and why I was taking pictures.<\/p>\n

After we finished talking, I took a few more, differently composed images before returning to the myriad of remaining tasks on my to do list.<\/p>\n

\"this

this image was created with simplicity in mind - it almost has a Japanese feel to it<\/p><\/div>\n

\"lots

lots of blossoms<\/p><\/div>\n

\"here

here I liked the flowers against the texture and lines of the terra-cotta<\/p><\/div>\n

Remember, these are potato vine blossoms . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HEROES<\/p>\n

I met a wonderful woman today, her name is Martha.<\/p>\n

Martha came to my rescue. Martha is truly my “hero of the day”!<\/p>\n

One of my errands included a stop at the Michael’s Store in Goleta, CA. I was fortunate enough to park directly in front of the store proper, which has a beautiful […]<\/p>\n

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