{"id":220,"date":"2010-10-29T02:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T02:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=220"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:05:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:05:26","slug":"a-picturesque-view-of-olana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=220","title":{"rendered":"A Picturesque view of Olana"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/olana1.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/olana1-300x200.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>This photo is mostly about the clouds for me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(god, I love a wide-angle lens!)<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s the whole Persian mansion thing at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.olana.org\/\">Olana<\/a> and finding a more complete view of it was very difficult. Frederic Church designed it that way; he wanted the landscape to be experienced in *glimpses* or a particular, planned sequence of views&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The other photographers at Camp that weekend approached their work very seriously and with tripods, lining up to take (presumably) the same photo as the person before and behind.<\/p>\n<p>(blech!)<\/p>\n<p>I wandered around and in Gorilla-photographer mode ran down this hill with arms extended&#8230; briefly considered a child-like roll, even&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(but for the camera equipment and the embarrassment of being caught in the act!)<\/p>\n<p>I turned around and found the mansion perched beside a maple tree afire&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>: )<\/p>\n<p><i>A Ming vase can be well-designed and well-made and is beautiful for that reason alone.  I don&#8217;t think this can be true for photography.  Unless there is something a little incomplete and a little strange, it will simply look like a copy of something pretty.<\/i>  ~John Loengard, &#8220;Pictures Under Discussion&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This photo is mostly about the clouds for me&#8230; (god, I love a wide-angle lens!) But there&#8217;s the whole Persian mansion thing at Olana and finding a more complete view of it was very difficult. Frederic Church designed it that way; he wanted the landscape to be experienced in *glimpses* or a particular, planned sequence &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=220\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Picturesque view of Olana<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,2,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}