{"id":8077,"date":"2013-03-10T11:45:09","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T11:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/?p=8077"},"modified":"2013-03-10T11:45:09","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T11:45:09","slug":"photo-heart-connection-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/?p=8077","title":{"rendered":"Photo-Heart Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February and January because I forgot to post it!<\/p>\n<p>I have two pictures for this exercise this month. They are linked, both taken on the same day. <\/p>\n<h2>February<\/h2>\n<p>The landscape was taken in the morning at 11:20.<br \/>\nThe morning started so dull with a very heavy mist. We were on Salisbury Plain, which is very beautiful when not shrouded in grey.<br \/>\nI decided to take a few landscape pictures with a kind of hopeful attitude, not being able to see much at all apart from a few dark shapes in the distance. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Morning-Mist.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Morning-Mist.jpg\" alt=\"Morning Mist\" width=\"500\"class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Morning-Mist.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Morning-Mist-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI used a texture on the sky to give it a bit of life.<\/p>\n<p>The birds were taken in the afternoon, 16:00.<br \/>\nAs we drove over to Longleat the mist began to lift and by the time we arrived we were looking at blue skies! I forgot about my hopeful pictures in an instant.<br \/>\nI was overjoyed, taking pictures of very photogenic and obliging giraffes; so close you <em>could<\/em> touch them.<br \/>\nThen I looked up and saw starlings swirling in the blue sky. I have always wanted to see the clouds of these birds IRL, you know the ones that you see in photographic magazines? I know this isn\u2019t quite a cloud but the sight of them lifted my heart. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/PHC-Feb-starlings.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/PHC-Feb-starlings.jpg\" alt=\"PHC Feb starlings\" width=\"500\"class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8081\" srcset=\"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/PHC-Feb-starlings.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/PHC-Feb-starlings-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The landscape reminds me to stay optimistic and the birds remind me why.<br \/>\nFrom a murky misty morning to a beautiful blue, bird filled sky, all in one day. <em>And<\/em> it was my birthday.<\/p>\n<h2>January<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Photo-Heart-January.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Photo-Heart-January.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Heart January\" width=\"500\"class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8079\" srcset=\"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Photo-Heart-January.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Photo-Heart-January-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMy photo \u2013 heart connection for January is from the farm on a day the sheep were lambing.<br \/>\nMy son was there with his girlfriend. He rang me and asked me to join them. \u201c\u2026and don\u2019t forget your camera\u201d he was calling\u2026<br \/>\nI choose this, of a sheep and her lamb, just 30 minutes old when I made the picture.<br \/>\nYes it is so very cute but when I saw the picture on my screen I also saw her looking at her lamb, ever watchful like every new mother.<br \/>\nThe picture tells me it\u2019s a new life, but it speaks to me of a new start, change and hope for the future as is happening in my life right now.<\/p>\n<p>This picture speaks right to my heart, of hope and love and joy that he called me to share his morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February and January because I forgot to post it! I have two pictures for this exercise this month. They are linked, both taken on the same day. February The landscape was taken in the morning at 11:20. 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