{"id":397,"date":"2006-04-07T07:09:02","date_gmt":"2006-04-07T12:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=397"},"modified":"2006-04-07T07:09:02","modified_gmt":"2006-04-07T12:09:02","slug":"national-parks-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/04\/07\/national-parks-in-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"National parks, in pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newwest.net\/index.php\/topic\/article\/7551\/C85\/L41\">New West <\/a>profiles a book of images from Yellowstone, Grand Teton and other scenic-splendor area codes.  The author is Edward Riddell of Jackson Hole; comparisons to Ansel Adams are inevitable.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What Adams communicated as a non-verbal linguist proclaiming the moods and majesty of U.S. national parks in the West, Riddell in this book establishes himself as the pre-eminent interpreter of Yellowstone, Grand Teton and the surrounding environs. &#8220;I&#8217;ve always been fascinated by the concept of natural beauty. Yes, I know this is dangerous ground,&#8221; Riddell writes. &#8220;Many people see the search for beauty in art as archaic and sentimental. Despite this I continue to be drawn to moments of grace in the natural world. If my search is sentimental, so be it. More than ever before, I believe the world needs moments of beauty, if for no other reason than to keep our lives in balance.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I like it when people save me the trouble of explaining my urge to take nature pictures.  Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getoutdoors.com\/goblog\/\">GoBlog.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New West profiles a book of images from Yellowstone, Grand Teton and other scenic-splendor area codes. The author is Edward Riddell of Jackson Hole; comparisons to Ansel Adams are inevitable. What Adams communicated as a non-verbal linguist proclaiming the moods&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/04\/07\/national-parks-in-pictures\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}