{"id":3093,"date":"2009-12-09T16:46:29","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T21:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2009\/12\/serendipity-2\/"},"modified":"2009-12-09T16:46:29","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T21:46:29","slug":"serendipity-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2009\/12\/serendipity-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Serendipity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quite often people ask me at the gallery: &quot;You must have waited a long time to get that shot.&quot; and I have to sheepishly admit that I rarely stake out a spot and wait.&#0160; More often, serendipity seems to be in my corner (noun:&#0160; &quot;an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.&quot;)<\/p>\n<div class=\"tpad-img-center\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b0120a738d4c0970b-800wi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"JLHor\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a01156f6c1fc1970b0120a738d4c0970b \" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b0120a738d4c0970b-500wi.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>&#0160;<\/div>\n<p>I had passed by this orchard the day before and admired the still-hanging apples and decided to return the next morning.&#0160; Needless to say, it snowed overnight and, when I returned, I was able to capture these images.&#0160; <\/p>\n<p>Though I don&#39;t go and and photograph in the area as frequently as I used to, I am reminded on mornings like this that one could go to the same place every day and see something new.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tpad-img-center\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b0120a738d823970b-800wi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"JLVert\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a01156f6c1fc1970b0120a738d823970b \" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b0120a738d823970b-500wi.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p> <\/div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite often people ask me at the gallery: &quot;You must have waited a long time to get that shot.&quot; and I have to sheepishly admit that I rarely stake out a spot and wait.&#0160; More often, serendipity seems to be in my corner (noun:&#0160; &quot;an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.&quot;) &#0160; I had [&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],"tags":[14,15,11,16,17,12,13,18],"class_list":["post-3093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-gunks","tag-hudson-valley","tag-jordan","tag-mohonk","tag-new-paltz","tag-photography","tag-shawangunks","tag-ulster-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093","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=3093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}