{"id":6610,"date":"2016-01-03T23:10:25","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T06:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/?p=6610"},"modified":"2016-01-03T23:10:56","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T06:10:56","slug":"first-images-for-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/03\/first-images-for-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"First Images For The Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On New Year&#8217;s Day, I stopped at Kunming Park to make the first image for 2016 &#8212; a sunset shot.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6608\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1711-0002-Pine-Tree-Kunming-Park-New-Years-Day.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6608\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6608\" src=\"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1711-0002-Pine-Tree-Kunming-Park-New-Years-Day.jpg\" alt=\"1711-0002-Pine-Tree-Kunming-Park-New-Years-Day\" width=\"800\" height=\"523\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6608\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pine Tree, Kunming Park, New Year&#8217;s Day<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Yesterday we were packing up our small Xmas tree. Sunlight passing through a crystal cast a spectrum on the tree, that I captured in this image.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6609\" style=\"width: 523px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1712-0011-Spectral-Light-On-Xmas-Tree.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6609\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6609\" src=\"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1712-0011-Spectral-Light-On-Xmas-Tree.jpg\" alt=\"1712-0011-Spectral-Light-On-Xmas-Tree\" width=\"513\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6609\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spectral Light On Xmas Tree<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After making this image, the tree was packed away for the season.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On New Year&#8217;s Day, I stopped at Kunming Park to make the first image for 2016 &#8212; a sunset shot. 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