{"id":641,"date":"2008-03-11T07:39:38","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T14:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2008\/03\/11\/a-pastoral-interlude\/"},"modified":"2013-11-07T10:50:11","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T17:50:11","slug":"a-pastoral-interlude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2008\/03\/11\/a-pastoral-interlude\/","title":{"rendered":"A pastoral interlude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>The charm of central California&#8217;s wine country.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>After the overwhelming power of yesterday&#8217;s picture, something more placid is called for. Nothing is finer than a gentle drive on the traffic-free back roads of central California&#8217;s wine country, which happens to be where I live.<\/p>\n<p>And this little bit of nothing was a nice little something to chance upon.  No drama.  No message. Just some gentle beauty.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/PastoralInterlude.jpg\" width=\"1014\" height=\"681\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Central California wine country.  5D, 85mm, 1\/1000, f\/8, ISO 250. Processed in Lightroom.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>With that combination of camera and lens, Canon could fairly claim, as Kodak did a hundred years ago, &#8220;You take the picture, we do the rest&#8221;.  Processing was limited to the addition of a bit of vignetting, using Lightroom&#8217;s sliders to make the subject pop.<\/p>\n<p>Some mood music helps, so why not the best?<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/e8PJsjO1u5w\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/e8PJsjO1u5w\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<i>Chopin, Mazurka in B minor, Op. 33 #4. Horowitz.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The charm of central California&#8217;s wine country. After the overwhelming power of yesterday&#8217;s picture, something more placid is called for. Nothing is finer than a gentle drive on the traffic-free back roads of central California&#8217;s wine country, which happens to be where I live. And this little bit of nothing was a nice little something &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2008\/03\/11\/a-pastoral-interlude\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A pastoral interlude<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","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=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25462,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions\/25462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}