{"id":1292,"date":"2018-05-08T16:52:14","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T20:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steveuptonphotography.com\/?page_id=1292"},"modified":"2018-05-08T16:52:14","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T20:52:14","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/steveuptonphotography.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings!<\/p>\n<p>Photography has come to me later in life. I have always had a love for the peacefulness and beauty of nature, and after several attempts at retirement I was soon to become a photography junkie. I read everything I could find in books, on the Internet, and in the classroom. I practiced every technique I could find &#8211; or invent! With time I mastered my cameras and the fundamental foundations of photography, and began traveling the world.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere along that journey photography stopped being about camera settings and gadgets, and evolved into a form of storytelling. I traveled to the savannas of Kenya, the jungles of Brazil, the icy cold Arctic Circle, remote and wondrous Alaska, and many more fascinating places. In essence, my mission shifted from a pursuit of technical expertise to one of capturing the world\u2019s most awesome and beautiful creatures in their natural habitats, and bringing their stories home.<\/p>\n<p>Today, from my studio in South Deerfield, Massachusetts I love offering multi-format images of landscapes and intimate animal behavior in hopes of sharing my passion for sustaining the amazing wildlife of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Click through any of the Images and Galleries in this site to view and enjoy the many options for making these images your own.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<\/p>\n<p>Steve Upton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings! Photography has come to me later in life. I have always had a love for the peacefulness and beauty of nature, and after several attempts at retirement I was<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/steveuptonphotography.com\/blog\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1378,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1292","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steveuptonphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steveuptonphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steveuptonphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steveuptonphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steveuptonphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steveuptonphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steveuptonphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steveuptonphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}