{"id":397,"date":"2025-10-02T02:34:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T02:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/?p=397"},"modified":"2025-10-02T02:34:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T02:34:52","slug":"this-is-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/?p=397","title":{"rendered":"This is Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can you believe this is Florida? I took this picture the other day when the weather was a little stormy and threatening to rain. During a storm or rain and shortly there after is one of my favorite times to shoot by the way. <\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"668\" src=\"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1L3A3153-1024x668.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1L3A3153-1024x668.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1L3A3153-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1L3A3153-2000x1305.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><p>The clouds in this image remind me of out west in the mountains and not here in plain old Florida farmlands. <\/p><p>Sometimes when you take a picture you have some idea of what the scene is about but when you start to edit the image starts to take a different path than what you originally saw. It almost feels like the image is evolving into something on its own without your concept nor input. Sure, I edit all my images, I have to. Almost every image needs editing whether it is dust removal or dodging and burning or a just a little alignment, we all have to edit. The trick is to edit just enough and not too much so the image looks sort of realistic and not overly done. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you believe this is Florida? I took this picture the other day when the weather was a little stormy and threatening to rain. During a storm or rain and shortly there after is one of my favorite times to shoot by the way. The clouds in this image remind me of out west in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/?p=397\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This is Florida&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397","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\/397","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=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400,"href":"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions\/400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letsdiscoverflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}