{"id":293,"date":"2025-01-21T21:13:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T21:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~BlankiF\/?p=293"},"modified":"2025-01-21T21:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T21:14:14","slug":"new-beginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~BlankiF\/new-beginnings\/","title":{"rendered":"New Beginnings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~BlankiF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/new-beginnings-1024x683.png\" alt=\"A California Scrub Jay outside my backyard. It is a blue black and white bird that is a member of the corvid family. In the picture it is holding a piece of food in it's mouth whilst perched on a tree branch. Taken at F\/16, 1\/80 Shutter Speed, 1000 ISO, with a 300 mm lens.\" class=\"wp-image-294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~BlankiF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/new-beginnings-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~BlankiF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/new-beginnings-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~BlankiF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/new-beginnings-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~BlankiF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/new-beginnings.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A California Scrub Jay outside my backyard. It is a blue black and white bird that is a member of the corvid family. In the picture it is holding a piece of food in it&#8217;s mouth whilst perched on a tree branch. Taken at F\/16, 1\/80 Shutter Speed, 1000 ISO, with a 300 mm lens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For this prompt, we had to tell a story of &#8220;New Beginnings&#8221;. I chose to photograph a California Scrub Jay, my favorite bird and overall animal. For a few years I&#8217;ve become completely enraptured by birds. To me, the inherent freedom they find in flight is part of why I think they are the perfect symbol for this new year. 2024 was a hard year for me, so seeing an animal I love so much so free-spirited in the wild gives me the strength to continue into the new year. I used an unsharp mask along with a lens flare to emphasize the vibrant colors of the bird and the outdoors along with giving the photo more appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this prompt, we had to tell a story of &#8220;New Beginnings&#8221;. I chose to photograph a California Scrub Jay, my favorite bird and overall animal. For a few years I&#8217;ve become completely enraptured by birds. To me, the inherent freedom they find in flight is part of why I think they are the perfect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-story_telling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~BlankiF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~BlankiF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~BlankiF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~BlankiF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~BlankiF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~BlankiF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~BlankiF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~BlankiF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~BlankiF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~BlankiF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}