{"id":2289,"date":"2011-07-25T06:45:42","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T11:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/?p=2289"},"modified":"2011-07-25T07:28:28","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T12:28:28","slug":"its-not-the-camera-flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/its-not-the-camera-flying\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Not the Camera | Flying"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"font-family: georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2290\" title=\"iPhoneography\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/iphone072211-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Travel Photography\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/iphone072211-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/iphone072211-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/iphone072211-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/iphone072211-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/iphone072211-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/iphone072211-160x160.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/iphone072211-320x320.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/iphone072211.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>You haven&#8217;t seen a tree until you&#8217;ve seen its shadow from the sky.\u00a0 ~Amelia Earhart<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif;\">In the sky, up beyond where the clouds play, the world below looks like somebody spilled a bag of cotton balls onto the landscape.\u00a0 The shadows from the cotton ball clouds look like dark ink stains, seemingly staining the surface of the earth forever, not just until the clouds pass.\u00a0 From above my eyes view the scene with bemusement &#8211; it all looks SO different here in the sky, from a beyond-birds-eye vantage point.\u00a0 The reality is that our perspectives constantly shift, our world experiences never mirror another, never perfectly duplicate.\u00a0 While two people may be in the same place, experiencing the same thing, the way they judge that reality may be different (in fact it probably is).\u00a0 The thing about perspective is that clouds can either look like puffy balls of white against a blue backdrop when looking up to the sky or they seem to stain the earth below when looking down from above.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,bookman old style,palatino linotype,book antiqua,palatino,trebuchet ms,helvetica,garamond,sans-serif,arial,verdana,avante garde,century gothic,comic sans ms,times,times new roman,serif;\">That&#8217;s the truly one big life lesson that takes time to learn: <strong><em>ones&#8217; perception is ones&#8217; reality<\/em><\/strong>, it means that the same scene may have thousands of different perspectives.\u00a0 I guess this life lesson means that it&#8217;s never wise to take yourself too seriously, chances are you could be wrong.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A view from above from Chicago child and family expert photographer, Marianne Drenthe.  Marmalade Photography offers up on location, travel photography services as well as out of our studio in the southwest suburbs of Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[316,295,249],"tags":[38,317,213],"class_list":["post-2289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iphone","category-miscellaneous","category-travel-photographs","tag-chicago-photographer","tag-iphoneography","tag-travel-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}