{"id":2745,"date":"2019-07-27T21:51:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-28T01:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2019\/07\/ready-to-receive\/"},"modified":"2019-07-27T21:51:53","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T01:51:53","slug":"ready-to-receive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2019\/07\/ready-to-receive\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready To Receive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For two decades I was propelled by some unknown motive force which found me attempting to capture visually the essence of an area I\u2019d been drawn to since first visiting as a boy \u2014 the Shawangunk Ridge.<\/p>\n<p>As I peruse the images captured during this time I find myself fascinated by their beguiling nature \u2013 it seems I no longer have the ability and good fortune to encounter the array of visual beauty displayed in the portfolio of images from this time.<\/p>\n<p>This observation by naturalist Henry David Thoreau may explain the phenomenon, though not why the change in perception might occur:<\/p>\n<p><em>A man receives only what he is ready to receive\u2026 We hear and apprehend only what we already half know. If there is something which does not concern me, which is out of my line, which by experience or by genius my attention is not drawn to, however novel and remarkable it may be \u2026 it does not detain us. Every man thus tracks himself through life \u2026 His observations make a chain. The phenomenon or fact that cannot in any wise be linked with the rest which he has observed, he does not observe. By and by we may be ready to receive what we cannot receive now.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<div class=\"tpad-img-center\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b0240a4bf1614200b-800wi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"398 Azalea &amp; Falls\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01156f6c1fc1970b0240a4bf1614200b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b0240a4bf1614200b-500wi.jpg\" title=\"398 Azalea &amp; Falls\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For two decades I was propelled by some unknown motive force which found me attempting to capture visually the essence of an area I\u2019d been drawn to since first visiting as a boy \u2014 the Shawangunk Ridge. As I peruse the images captured during this time I find myself fascinated by their beguiling nature \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-2745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}