{"id":282,"date":"2025-01-16T19:08:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T19:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/?p=282"},"modified":"2025-05-18T04:15:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T04:15:23","slug":"new-beginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/new-beginnings\/","title":{"rendered":"New Beginnings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/New-Beginnings-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"A short, yellow flower grows from the ground, with grass around it.\" class=\"wp-image-284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/New-Beginnings-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/New-Beginnings-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/New-Beginnings-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/New-Beginnings-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">50mm, ISO 100, f\/1.8, 1\/330<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This photo blog is about a new beginning, as we have approached the new year of 2025. For this photo blog, I found a small flower that was planted to the ground, signifying that it is beginning its journey to grow taller and taller to reach new heights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I edited this photo in Adobe Photoshop by adding a multiply blend mode because the surroundings of the flower was a little bit too bright, and I wanted the yellow flower to stand out. I also considered the rule of thirds composition, by having the flower to be positioned approximately at one of the intersection points of the rule of thirds grid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This photo blog is about a new beginning, as we have approached the new year of 2025. For this photo blog, I found a small flower that was planted to the ground, signifying that it is beginning its journey to grow taller and taller to reach new heights. I edited this photo in Adobe Photoshop&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-story_telling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JerryL\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}