{"id":3131,"date":"2017-04-17T12:02:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T19:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/?p=3131"},"modified":"2017-04-17T12:02:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T19:02:07","slug":"bored-in-a-parking-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/bored-in-a-parking-lot\/","title":{"rendered":"Bored in a Parking Lot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was with a friend who wanted to run into Golf World for a few minutes. I am not a golfer so I said I would wait by the car. I pulled out my camera and looked around for something interesting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There were some electrical towers running over the parking lot and it was an overcast sky, so I started with this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/photography\/albums\/favourite-photos\/content\/alanklughammer20170416-akp6815\/lightbox\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3132\" src=\"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/alanklughammer.com_.20170416-_AKP6815-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I like the simple lines and graphic design of the image. On a side note, even though it is very monotone, it doesn&#8217;t work as well as a black and white. Some of the subtleties are lost.<\/p>\n<p>Then I thought of incorporating some of the foreground trees that were just waiting to bud, creating a contrast between natural and man-made &#8220;trees&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I ended up with this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/photography\/albums\/favourite-photos\/content\/alanklughammeralanklughammercom-20170416-akp6820\/lightbox\/\" href=\"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/photography\/albums\/favourite-photos\/content\/alanklughammeralanklughammercom-20170416-akp6820\/lightbox\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3135 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/alanklughammer.com_.AlanKlughammer.com_20170416-_AKP6820-267x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I really like this image on a number of levels. And it was taken while getting bored (not) in a mall parking lot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>My point is that you can take creative images anywhere. It is just a matter of seeing, experimenting, and being open to what is available&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was with a friend who wanted to run into Golf World for a few minutes. I am not a golfer so I said I would wait by the car. I pulled out my camera and looked around for something interesting&#8230; There were some electrical towers running over the parking lot and it was an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,17,7,87],"tags":[58,46,32],"class_list":["post-3131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-easy","category-photography","category-urban-photography","tag-abstract","tag-landscapes","tag-tips-techniques-and-thoughts-on-photography","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}