{"id":289,"date":"2011-04-08T11:49:56","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T09:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=289"},"modified":"2012-01-18T14:39:54","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T13:39:54","slug":"chasing-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/photography\/chasing-the-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Chasing the Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great things about retirement is the ability to devote more time to other things; particularly photography. I&#8217;ve been trying to get some decent landscapes (and I&#8217;ve never considered myself too much of a landscape photographer) for a while now that we live in such a beautiful area. However, landscape photography is all about the light (usually early in the morning or in the evening). So with Derek, the BBC Wales weatherman, forecasting a misty start followed by a sunny day we set the alarm for 5.30 and set off into the Breacon Beacons.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_290\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-290\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-290\" title=\"brecon_landscape\" src=\"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/brecon_landscape.jpg\" alt=\"Brecon Beacons\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/brecon_landscape.jpg 550w, http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/brecon_landscape-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 85vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-290\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Breacon Beacons on a glorious April morning \u00a9 John Burton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We were rewarded with some lovely cloud and light for about 20 minutes or so. I got one or two good shots. I&#8217;ve been trying to photograph Carreg Cennen for a while now and this is probably as good as I&#8217;ve got so far.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_297\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-297\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-297\" title=\"castle_cennen2\" src=\"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/castle_cennen2.jpg\" alt=\"Castle Cennen\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/castle_cennen2.jpg 550w, http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/castle_cennen2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 85vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-297\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carreg Cennen \u00a9 John Burton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In any event it was a glorious morning to be up on the Brecon Beacons. A full English breakfast when we got home would have been heaven but Liz doesn&#8217;t allow those on health grounds!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great things about retirement is the ability to devote more time to other things; particularly photography. I&#8217;ve been trying to get some decent landscapes (and I&#8217;ve never considered myself too much of a landscape photographer) for a while now that we live in such a beautiful area. However, landscape photography is all &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/photography\/chasing-the-light\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chasing the Light&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[15],"tags":[16,64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644,"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}