{"id":119,"date":"2010-03-06T18:44:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T00:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/?p=119"},"modified":"2010-03-07T03:12:55","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T09:12:55","slug":"brighten-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"Brighten Up!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been sensitive to comments from friends at work that question why I seem to favor dark and night-time subjects.\u00a0 My body of work does not, as I see it, support concerns that I’m dark and dangerous.\u00a0 So today I set out to capture a subject during the daytime.\u00a0 I sought out color, contrast, and interesting shapes.<\/p>\n

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What do you think?\u00a0 Have I proven that I’m just like any other well-adjusted photographer?\u00a0\u00a0 What…..you’re not convinced?\u00a0 Shucks – I guess I’ll try again.<\/p>\n

Kidding aside, this photograph was taken in Wood National Cemetery on the grounds known after the Civil War as Soldiers Home – today co-located on a complex known as the Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center.\u00a0 Soldiers Home would become the birthplace of federal veteran’s care in America providing soldiers\u2019 recuperation and living settlement facilities.\u00a0 Until 1989 these 90 acres had it’s own post office and zip code 53193.\u00a0 A total of 36,738 soldiers, veterans and their relatives are buried in the National Cemetery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been sensitive to comments from friends at work that question why I seem to favor dark and night-time subjects.\u00a0 My body of work does not, as I see it, support concerns that I’m dark and dangerous.\u00a0 So today I set out to capture a subject during the daytime.\u00a0 I sought out color, contrast, and… Read More »Brighten Up!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericksonphotography.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}