{"id":563,"date":"2019-10-31T16:09:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T16:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/?p=563"},"modified":"2019-10-31T16:19:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T16:19:31","slug":"road-trip-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/road-trip-part-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Road Trip, Part Two"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My Favorites…<\/h3>\n

Sometimes I get lucky and the camera grabs exactly what I am looking at, just the way I want it. \u00a0The color is right, the lighting is perfect, and the camera doesn\u2019t try to improve it. \u00a0This is a smart camera after all… \u00a0I\u2019m not sure that I have a goal in mind when I take out the camera (iPhone or iPad). \u00a0I often see something that takes hold of me, and I must capture it. \u00a0Often it doesn\u2019t work… \u00a0And I am so glad that I am not wasting film.<\/p>\n

The picture above is from Hurricane Ridge, Olympic National Park, just after an early snowfall. \u00a0Sometimes the moment is perfect. Hurricane Ridge allows us to look out over and into the deep wilderness of the National Forest. \u00a0I was looking the other way…<\/p>\n

But later, further down the road, we stopped for this view of the deepest darkest, velvety green of a wilderness.<\/p>\n

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The next two views are from another favorite place, Lake Crescent, also in the Olympic National Forest. \u00a0\u00a0Grey days! \u00a0The light is silver, the shadows deep. \u00a0The shapes of things stand out. \u00a0There are fewer distractions when color is muted.<\/p>\n

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Another thing I like to experiment with is taking pictures up close or from odd angles so that I lose the identifying details and the image moves towards abstract. \u00a0I don’t know where my love of abstract art really comes from. \u00a0It just feels so natural to me to look at things that way, to imagine, to suggest what goes beyond what is there in reality.<\/p>\n

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It intrigues me to go in close and see something isolated from its surroundings, changing the context of the view, focusing on just that one thing.<\/p>\n

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How to capture a sense of place is always a challenge. \u00a0In the Hoh Rain Forest water defines the place. \u00a0Wet is its gloriously natural state. \u00a0Though it isn’t always that way. \u00a0I’ve been in the rain forest during drought and it feels strange and frightening, anxious and stressed. \u00a0This trip the rains came down, sometimes gently, sometimes determined.<\/p>\n

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And finally, atmospherics…that\u2019s the way I think of it, partly a sense of place, recording a moment captured\u2014all those sky and weather shots I love to go for.<\/p>\n

Sunset, Kalaloch Beach, Washington.<\/p>\n

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Jim stood out in the rain and wind to catch his shot of the Cape Disappointment Light House. \u00a0I did not…<\/p>\n

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As always, Baker Bay, Cape Disappointment, seemed ever different, ever new, and at the same time eternal.<\/p>\n

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Good trip, and good to be back home. \u00a0Cheers everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My Favorites… Sometimes I get lucky and the camera grabs exactly what I am looking at, just the way I want it. \u00a0The color is right, the lighting is perfect, and the camera doesn\u2019t try to improve it. \u00a0This is a smart camera after all… \u00a0I\u2019m not sure that I have a goal in mind … Continue reading “Road Trip, Part Two”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions\/602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}