{"id":3,"date":"2008-05-17T17:15:22","date_gmt":"2008-05-17T23:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendurbin.com\/sourdough-trail\/?p=3"},"modified":"2008-05-27T22:48:04","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T04:48:04","slug":"a-harsh-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendurbin.com\/sourdough-trail\/2008\/05\/17\/a-harsh-light\/","title":{"rendered":"A harsh light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I went for an evening run along Sourdough Trail, my first of the season. New leaves are just reaching out from the buds; the air is thick with expectation. But bareness still dominates, and the hard light from the west seemed a challenge. Here is where I started to learn about that light, though it was the leaf-filtered summer light that originally attracted me. For two years I photographed along this mile of path and stream. I thought I might be done with it, but apparently not.<\/p>\n<p class=\"show\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stephendurbin.com\/sourdough-trail\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/2284c-450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendurbin.com\/sourdough-trail\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/2284c-450.jpg 450w, https:\/\/stephendurbin.com\/sourdough-trail\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/2284c-450-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In this coming year, I want to return to Sourdough Trail to deepen my practice and experience. Like many photographers, I tend to write in statements that I photograph to engage a place, to learn about it\u2014and myself\u2014in a particular way. What is that way? What can one actually learn and how? This blog is an attempt to cast some light on the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I went for an evening run along Sourdough Trail, my first of the season. New leaves are just reaching out from the buds; the air is thick with expectation. But bareness still dominates, and the hard light from the west seemed a challenge. Here is where I started to learn about that light, though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendurbin.com\/sourdough-trail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendurbin.com\/sourdough-trail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendurbin.com\/sourdough-trail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendurbin.com\/sourdough-trail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendurbin.com\/sourdough-trail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephendurbin.com\/sourdough-trail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendurbin.com\/sourdough-trail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendurbin.com\/sourdough-trail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendurbin.com\/sourdough-trail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}