{"id":19081,"date":"2016-07-10T09:06:20","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T13:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=19081"},"modified":"2016-07-10T09:06:20","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T13:06:20","slug":"things-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2016\/07\/things-to-come\/","title":{"rendered":"Things to come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/CreativeHiding.jpg\" alt=\"Bodie Island lighthouse, and what you don&#039;t see\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-19082\" \/>This is just a hint, because there are several posts getting lined up right now but it&#8217;ll take me a little bit to get to them. Feel free to guess how I spent the past couple of days.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to keep my posts and photos mostly in the order of which they occurred, which might spark the question of <em>why?<\/em> And mostly, the answer is that it&#8217;s what works for me. Naturally, there are images and subjects that are stronger than others, and if I jump to the strongest, that reduces the motivation to get back to the rest<strong>;<\/strong> with my time and schedule (using the word extremely loosely) being what it is lately, this might result only in fewer posts. So I keep things in order to build to them, making some posts &#8216;dessert&#8217; if you will. Whatever, it works, stop looking at me like that.<\/p>\n<p>Completely switching topics now, this particular composition is what I call, &#8220;creative hiding&#8221; &#8211; it&#8217;s partially about trying to do something different with a fairly common (some might say &#8216;over-photographed&#8217;) subject, and partially about intentionally masking some elements in the scene that worked against it. I talk about this a little in a <a href=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2010\/12\/on-composition-part-six\/\" target=\"_blank\">previous composition post<\/a>, so you can go there in the meantime and then start looking at this image in an entirely new way, wondering just what it was that I was hiding, and where. It might not be too hard, but the kicker is, did you have any inkling that I was trying to do this <em>before<\/em> I mentioned it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is just a hint, because there are several posts getting lined up right now but it&#8217;ll take me a little bit to get to them. Feel free to guess how I spent the past couple of days. I&#8217;m trying to keep my posts and photos mostly in the order of which they occurred, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[3479,3480,2348],"class_list":["post-19081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","tag-bodie-island-lighthouse","tag-portents","tag-sneaky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}