{"id":20620,"date":"2012-12-24T04:00:07","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=20620"},"modified":"2012-12-21T13:40:04","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T20:40:04","slug":"the-palace-of-fine-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2012\/12\/24\/the-palace-of-fine-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"The Palace of Fine Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Greek revival on a grand scale.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco&#8217;s Marina District is a Greek revival structure built in 1915 for the Pan-Pacific Exhibition.  There&#8217;s an interesting history at <a href=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palace_of_Fine_Arts target=_blank>Wikipedia<\/a> where the original structure can be seen in a contemporary monochrome panoramic shot.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s rather incongruous, way too large for the site and sort of in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by high priced residential buildings which rather crowd it out.  But it&#8217;s a fun trip to visit this monumental piece, with its rotunda and beautiful lagoon.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/POFA_1.jpg\" width=\"814\" height=\"546\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Greek revival fluted column.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/POFA_2.jpg\" width=\"546\" height=\"814\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Lone tree.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/DxO_keystoning.jpg\" width=\"547\" height=\"814\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Pink.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/POFA_4.jpg\" width=\"814\" height=\"546\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<i>The scale is monumental.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/POFA_5.jpg\" width=\"546\" height=\"814\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Lone tourist.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/POFA_6.jpg\" width=\"546\" height=\"814\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Cellular snap.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Snapped on the D700 using the 16-35G and 35-70 AFD lenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greek revival on a grand scale. The Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco&#8217;s Marina District is a Greek revival structure built in 1915 for the Pan-Pacific Exhibition. There&#8217;s an interesting history at Wikipedia where the original structure can be seen in a contemporary monochrome panoramic shot. It&#8217;s rather incongruous, way too large for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2012\/12\/24\/the-palace-of-fine-arts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Palace of Fine Arts<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20620"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20632,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20620\/revisions\/20632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}