{"id":3067,"date":"2011-01-13T14:01:47","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T19:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2011\/01\/do-the-deed\/"},"modified":"2011-01-13T14:01:47","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T19:01:47","slug":"do-the-deed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2011\/01\/do-the-deed\/","title":{"rendered":"Do The Deed"},"content":{"rendered":"

I noted in an earlier blog post that my passion for capturing the iconic landscapes of the 'Gunks has abated.  More accurately, I feel that I've mostly satisfied the appetite I once had to express this unique landscape by conventional photographic means.<\/p>\n

I often remark how lucky I am to have had an opportunity to "discover" the area through imagery and was reminded of this when I came across a snippet of a Keats poem.  Keats desired to distill the essence of the natural world poetically and he writes that in the ideal life he would ask for ten years:<\/p>\n

 " …so I may do the deed <\/em>
That my own soul has to itself decreed."<\/em><\/p>\n

Thankfully, I've had those ten years.<\/p>\n

Of course, I'll always enjoy and photographically express the 'Gunks exceptional landscapes, like this image I captured yesterday after the storm. How could I not?<\/p>\n

But I expect I'll be capturing fewer iconic landscapes and, like my mentor Eliot Porter, continue to look more deeply for scenes and methods that will bring a new and different expression to my work.<\/p>\n

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I noted in an earlier blog post that my passion for capturing the iconic landscapes of the 'Gunks has abated.  More accurately, I feel that I've mostly satisfied the appetite I once had to express this unique landscape by conventional photographic means. I often remark how lucky I am to have had an opportunity to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067","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=3067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}