{"id":804,"date":"2016-12-20T02:42:06","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T02:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/?p=804"},"modified":"2016-12-29T01:27:04","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T01:27:04","slug":"winter-of-discontent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/20\/winter-of-discontent\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter of Discontent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/77A2046_DxO11EfexPro.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-805\" src=\"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/77A2046_DxO11EfexPro-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/77A2046_DxO11EfexPro-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/77A2046_DxO11EfexPro-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/77A2046_DxO11EfexPro.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/77A2046_DxO11EfexPro-200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>In an attempt to describe the awkward state I am in photographically I am using William Shakespeare&#8217;s Line from Richard III in my title. What I mean by this is that while I have come off a productive period of growth in taking photographs this past year, I am stalled by the forces of nature. At an advanced age of 69 years the body becomes sensitive to elements of cold and heat it was not prone before. In December 2016 the winter so far has been cold with many days of unrelenting winds.<\/p>\n<p>So, in a real sense I am captive to the indoors and to my fantasy and musings. \u00a0But, I have a plan. Come June 2017 I have planned to take a Canon Destination Workshop in Hawaii \u00a0on the Big Island. It is my &#8220;come back&#8221; to the forces of nature. It is a \u00a0five day workshop of taking photos \u00a0of\u00a0volcanos, the milky way, tropical gardens, and multicolored beaches. In addition to this I&#8217;ll be spending ten more days on my own visiting two more islands.<\/p>\n<p>The currently posted\u00a0photo is of Iceland taken this past July (2016) while crossing a stream on a so-called road in the south central part \u00a0of the country, namely\u00a0Landmannalaugar. It is a region which, no doubt, has beauty and form but it escaped me on this day of cold, rain, and wind.<\/p>\n<p>The photograph was shot with a Canon 5DS, Ef24-105mm f\/4L IS USM lens @ 24mm, f\/16, 1\/400&#8243;, ISO 800.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an attempt to describe the awkward state I am in photographically I am using William Shakespeare&#8217;s Line from Richard III in my title. What I mean by this is that while I have come off a productive period of growth in taking photographs this past year, I am stalled by the forces of nature. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,55,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":813,"href":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions\/813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/go-to-mac.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}