{"id":379,"date":"2025-08-29T20:52:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T20:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/?p=379"},"modified":"2025-08-29T20:52:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T20:52:37","slug":"driftwood-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/?p=379","title":{"rendered":"Driftwood Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After every storm there are numerous plants and tress that are uprooted or moved by nature&#8217;s force, but the aftermath is equally as beautiful and all we need to do is get closer to take a look. Nature has a way of creating wonderful scenes with minimal posing or makeup. As a portrait photographer specializing in capturing people I can tell you that capturing landscapes is by far the greatest and most relaxing thing I&#8217;ve ever done. My subject never moves or frowns or gets fidgety. They simply sit ready and willing and ask nothing of the viewer.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"721\" src=\"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1L3A2852-1024x721.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1L3A2852-1024x721.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1L3A2852-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1L3A2852-2000x1408.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><p>Lately I&#8217;ve been experiencing a lot of trash left behind by humans and even though I try to pick up what some people have left behind I sometimes capture a scene without noticing the trash until I&#8217;m editing. Sometimes I don&#8217;t even catch it while I&#8217;m editing and end up printing the image later on. <\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-03-at-5.21.01-PM-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-78\" srcset=\"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-03-at-5.21.01-PM-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-03-at-5.21.01-PM-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screen-Shot-2024-04-03-at-5.21.01-PM-2000x1334.png 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><p>This image was taken right as the sun was going down and I was so excited to take the shot that I completely missed the empty bottle in the foreground. This is a great example of what I mean. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After every storm there are numerous plants and tress that are uprooted or moved by nature&#8217;s force, but the aftermath is equally as beautiful and all we need to do is get closer to take a look. Nature has a way of creating wonderful scenes with minimal posing or makeup. As a portrait photographer specializing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/?p=379\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Driftwood Beauty&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381,"href":"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}