{"id":3030,"date":"2011-07-16T09:26:36","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T13:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2011\/07\/perfect-day\/"},"modified":"2011-07-16T09:26:36","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T13:26:36","slug":"perfect-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2011\/07\/perfect-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfect Day For&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was a perfect summer day, and a friend and I set out early to enjoy the morning and see if we could capture some images.&#0160; <\/p>\n<p>The sky was a cloudless blue &#8211; it was the kind of day that visitors to the gallery often remark is, &quot;the perfect day to take pictures.&quot;&#0160; I don&#39;t usually bother to correct them:&#0160; those are the nicest days to be out with a camera, but they are the most difficult for a landscape photographer, since a sky without clouds tends to also lack personality.<\/p>\n<p>We hiked along one of the many streams in the area and, as I wrote about in an earlier post, I liked the composition of many of the images but not the color &#8212; a homogenous summer green.<\/p>\n<p>I converted to B&amp;W, as I did the earlier image, and the end result expresses, for me, the timeless feeling of this setting.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tpad-img-center\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b015433c2e81a970c-800wi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"5050\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01156f6c1fc1970b015433c2e81a970c\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b015433c2e81a970c-500wi.jpg\" title=\"5050\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was a perfect summer day, and a friend and I set out early to enjoy the morning and see if we could capture some images.&#0160; The sky was a cloudless blue &#8211; it was the kind of day that visitors to the gallery often remark is, &quot;the perfect day to take pictures.&quot;&#0160; I don&#39;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-nature","category-new-paltz-ny","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030","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=3030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}