{"id":1219,"date":"2012-10-05T16:00:20","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T22:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2012-10-04T13:03:34","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T19:03:34","slug":"outside-inspiration-literally-outside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/outside-inspiration-literally-outside\/","title":{"rendered":"Outside Inspiration: Literally Outside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I got out &#8211; actually drove and hiked through the colors that I have been exploring online. There really is nothing like being immersed in color out in the natural elements from which it came. But since we can&#8217;t take it back to the studio in much of a literal fashion, there&#8217;s always photography.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/301009_10150476952050200_1774815305_n.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1220\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/outside-inspiration-literally-outside\/301009_10150476952050200_1774815305_n\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/301009_10150476952050200_1774815305_n.jpg?fit=640%2C428&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,428\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"301009_10150476952050200_1774815305_n\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/301009_10150476952050200_1774815305_n.jpg?fit=430%2C288&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1220\" title=\"301009_10150476952050200_1774815305_n\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/301009_10150476952050200_1774815305_n.jpg?resize=512%2C342\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/301009_10150476952050200_1774815305_n.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/301009_10150476952050200_1774815305_n.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I took this picture in the Colorado Rockies in an area known as Squaw Pass last year. (If I have time this coming week, I&#8217;ll edit and post some from this week&#8217;s adventure.) I have &#8211; in the past &#8211; mistakenly considered bright saturated colors as unnatural. But as I traveled more and more I came to realize that, no, most of the time those artifically produced colors aren&#8217;t living up to what nature has to offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I got out &#8211; actually drove and hiked through the colors that I have been exploring online. There really is nothing like being immersed in color out in the natural elements from which it came. But since we can&#8217;t take it back to the studio in much of a literal fashion, there&#8217;s always photography.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13,266,350,157,347,30,12,11,349,348,16],"class_list":["post-1219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","tag-artistic-inspiration","tag-color","tag-colorado","tag-creativity","tag-natural-elements","tag-organic","tag-polymer-art","tag-polymer-clay","tag-rocky-mountains","tag-squaw-pass","tag-the-polymer-arts-magazine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-jF","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}