{"id":3399,"date":"2009-12-23T13:40:37","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T21:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/?p=3399"},"modified":"2009-12-23T13:40:37","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T21:40:37","slug":"merry-christmas-and-happy-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/?p=3399","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday Season!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ll be away from my usual nature haunts until the New Year, so I’m going to wrap up the year with a few Bay Area holiday lights . . . and an exploration of Itten’s contrasts<\/a>, inspired by a reading of a Michael Freeman book (The Photographer’s Eye<\/a>). If any shots grab my attention in between, I’ll squeeze them in.<\/p>\n

Wishing you all a beautiful wrap of 2009 . . . and a healthful, happy start to 2010. I don’t issue either of those wishes lightly. I have genuine hope that 2010 is an Itten’s Contrast to the chaos of 2009. <\/p>\n

Be well, everyone! Happy Christmas.<\/p>\n

\"Christmas<\/a>

Christmas Planets - 4th Street Berkeley - \u00a9ingridtaylar<\/p><\/div>\n

In the first photo, I used spot-metering to darken the background and give these orbs their planetary effect. The second photo below was shot at dusk with some remaining ambient light in the sky for background.<\/i><\/p>\n

\"Christmas<\/a>

Christmas Orb - 4th Street Berkeley - \u00a9ingridtaylar<\/p><\/div>\n

Hugh and I both photographed this scene a couple of years ago, but his version below — with a Panasonic point-and-shoot (LX1) was the best of our shots.<\/i><\/p>\n

\"San<\/a>

City Hall Christmas Tree - San Francisco - \u00a9hughgrew<\/p><\/div>\n

This is probably the most photographed angle of the Pier 39 Christmas tree — from the adjacent overpass. But it works. Next year I’ll put some effort into alternative poses.<\/i><\/p>\n

\"Pier<\/a>

Pier 39 Christmas Tree - San Francisco - \u00a9ingridtaylar<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Union<\/a>

Union Square Window Display - San Francisco - \u00a9ingridtaylar<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Union<\/a>

Union Square Macy's Christmas Tree - San Francisco - \u00a9ingridtaylar<\/p><\/div>\n

I photographed the Macy’s and SF\/SPCA holiday windows last year for About.com<\/a>. There’s also a corresponding piece on the SPCA’s holiday adoption<\/a> tradition.<\/p>\n

\"SF\/SPCA<\/a>

SF\/SPCA Adoptable Kitty - \u00a9ingridtaylar<\/p><\/div>\n

Part of a vast Christmas display at the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco — waterfalls of lights falling against the exposed elevators.<\/i><\/p>\n

\"Waterfall<\/a>

Waterfall of Lights - Hyatt Regency SF - \u00a9ingridtaylar<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ll be away from my usual nature haunts until the New Year, so I’m going to wrap up the year with a few Bay Area holiday lights . . . and an exploration of Itten’s contrasts, inspired by a reading of a Michael Freeman book (The Photographer’s Eye). If any shots grab my attention in between, I’ll squeeze them in. Wishing you all a beautiful wrap of 2009 . . . and a healthful, happy […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}