{"id":52486,"date":"2026-06-01T23:25:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T23:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=52486"},"modified":"2026-06-01T23:37:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T23:37:33","slug":"alan-lodge-as-a-landscape-photographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/52486","title":{"rendered":"Alan Lodge as a Landscape Photographer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A quiet observer of the shifting light, He walks the hills where shadows take their flight, With silver-halide patience, slow and deep, He wakes the landscapes from their ancient sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No frantic shutter, no rehearsed display, But catching truths that hide in plain of day; The granite spine, the velvet of the moor, A testament to what has gone before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The lens becomes a bridge, a steady eye, Between the earth below and weeping sky; He maps the wild, the rugged, and the vast, And binds the present to a storied past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In every frame, a whisper of the breeze, The patient growth of weathered, stunted trees, Alan finds the soul within the stone, And brings us wonders we might not have known<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">>>>>> Well, all this might be true if I wasn&#8217;t still on crutches !!!!! Again, one day innit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quiet observer of the shifting light, He walks the hills where shadows take their flight, With silver-halide patience, slow and deep, He wakes the landscapes from their ancient sleep. No frantic shutter, no rehearsed display, But catching truths that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/52486\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,29],"class_list":["post-52486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1","tag-photography","tag-tash"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52486"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52489,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52486\/revisions\/52489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}