{"id":110,"date":"2015-10-17T03:21:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T03:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lofgreenimages.com\/blog\/?p=110"},"modified":"2019-04-08T02:09:38","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T02:09:38","slug":"keep-it-simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lofgreenimages.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/creativity\/keep-it-simple\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep it Simple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am excited to announce that I will be having a solo show during the Louisville, CO Friday night art walk. I will be showing some of my prints at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefuzzyantler.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fuzzy Antler<\/a> on Friday December 2nd. I hope you all of my readers will be able to come and hang out, drink some wine and look at some of my prints. While I was&nbsp;going through my images to choose the ones I will include in the show I came across an negative that I put on the back burner and then forgot about.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_112\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-112\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lofgreenimages.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/RestfullSmall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-112\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lofgreenimages.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/RestfullSmall.jpg\" alt=\"Restful Waters\" width=\"800\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lofgreenimages.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/RestfullSmall.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.lofgreenimages.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/RestfullSmall-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-112\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Point Loma CA on the horizon with Coronado Island beach in the foreground<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The reason this image jumped out at me recently is because it is so simple. The amazing thing about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lofgreenimages.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">black and white photography<\/a> is how images get more powerful the simpler they become. When you start striping away all of the unnecessary pieces that fall into your viewfinder the more exciting it gets. Then, once you have only the pieces you want and nothing more is when that magic happens and the shutter is tripped. Stripping an image down to its bare essentials, keeping it simple, will always result in a powerful image. Give it a try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am excited to announce that I will be having a solo show during the Louisville, CO Friday night art walk. I will be showing some of my prints at the Fuzzy Antler on Friday December 2nd. I hope you all of my readers will be able to come and hang out, drink some wine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lofgreenimages.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/creativity\/keep-it-simple\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Keep it Simple<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creativity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lofgreenimages.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lofgreenimages.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lofgreenimages.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lofgreenimages.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lofgreenimages.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.lofgreenimages.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"https:\/\/www.lofgreenimages.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lofgreenimages.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lofgreenimages.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lofgreenimages.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lofgreenimages.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}