{"id":18313,"date":"2020-01-09T21:37:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T02:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18313"},"modified":"2020-01-14T09:15:27","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T14:15:27","slug":"still-life-with-tulip-leaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18313","title":{"rendered":"Still Life with Tulip Leaf"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18315\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_20200109_173240.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18315\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_20200109_173240-233x350.jpg\" alt=\"Still Life with Tulip Leaf\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_20200109_173240-233x350.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_20200109_173240-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_20200109_173240-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_20200109_173240-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_20200109_173240.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still Life with Tulip Leaf<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last week Dorothy bought some white tulips and had them in a vase in her room. Before going away for the long weekend she moved them down to the dining room table, so we got to enjoy them while she was gone. They are well past their prime now but I took pictures of them in their wilted state this evening. In this particular vase and with the diffuse lighting I used, this reminds me of a still life painting and I&#8217;m pretty pleased with how it turned out. I have a photograph from 2010 of roses in a vase that also reminds me of a still life and that one may be one of the best photos I&#8217;ve ever taken, certainly in the top 100 (not that I&#8217;ve ever actually graded them like that). This one isn&#8217;t quite up to that standard but I&#8217;m still pretty happy with it. I really wish I could paint. Not that I&#8217;ve ever really tried, but it&#8217;s a lot of work and without a lot of practice, it&#8217;s just not going to happen. There are a couple folks I knew in my high school days who are professional artists and I love seeing their work. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Dorothy bought some white tulips and had them in a vase in her room. Before going away for the long weekend she moved them down to the dining room table, so we got to enjoy them while she was gone. They are well past their prime now but I took pictures of them &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18313\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[153,2192,1629,2193],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18313"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18321,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18313\/revisions\/18321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}