{"id":1655,"date":"2015-03-29T22:11:38","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T02:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2015-03-29T22:11:38","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T02:11:38","slug":"signs-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/?p=1655","title":{"rendered":"Signs of Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Project 365 &#8211; Day 88<\/p>\n<p>Today was a beautiful day.\u00a0 There was a chill in the air from a cold front, but the blue skies and blooming flowers reminded me that spring is almost here to stick around.<\/p>\n<p>We have a beautiful park, amphitheater, and store front area by the city hall.\u00a0 This afternoon I spent\u00a0 a half hour or so walking around, relaxing, and looking for my daily project photo.\u00a0 This was my favorite perspective, and I just love how the late afternoon sun lit up the trees and city hall for me.\u00a0 The vibrancy and warmth against the blue sky help make this photo, in my opinion.\u00a0 At the same time, I really dig black and white architectural photographs.\u00a0 Naturally, I had to give this one a try.\u00a0 I&#8217;m torn between the two:\u00a0 On one hand, the color photo speaks &#8220;spring&#8221; to me through the blooms and the warm light, while the strong contrast of the black and white version has its own powerful appeal.\u00a0 Which do you prefer?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1656\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/150329_023.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1656\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1656\" src=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/150329_023-700x466.jpg\" alt=\"Spring Afternoon @ Suwanee Park\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/150329_023-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/150329_023.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spring Afternoon @ Suwanee Town Center<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1657\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/150329_023bw.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1657\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1657 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/150329_023bw-700x466.jpg\" alt=\"150329_023bw\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/150329_023bw-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/150329_023bw.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1657\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spring Afternoon @ Suwanee Town Center (B&amp;W)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Fuji X100s, 23mm f\/2.0, 1\/340 sec @ f\/11.0, ISO800<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project 365 &#8211; Day 88 Today was a beautiful day.\u00a0 There was a chill in the air from a cold front, but the blue skies and blooming flowers reminded me that spring is almost here to stick around. We have a beautiful park, amphitheater, and store front area by the city hall.\u00a0 This afternoon I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51,16,37,55],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1661,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions\/1661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}