{"id":19642,"date":"2016-11-30T02:04:34","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T07:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=19642"},"modified":"2016-11-30T02:04:34","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T07:04:34","slug":"the-abstracts-chase-november-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2016\/11\/the-abstracts-chase-november-off\/","title":{"rendered":"The abstracts chase November off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Spirally-L.jpg\" alt=\"unidentified flower buds\" width=\"730\" height=\"994\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19644\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>I couldn&#8217;t really pass this one up, as curious as it is. Back in October when cruising through the NC Botanical Garden, I happened across a small flowering plant, almost ready to blossom out, and the spiral pattern of the buds was compelling, so of course I had to go in straight down from the top. The dim natural light was part of the motivation behind the short depth, but also the idea that I didn&#8217;t <em>want<\/em> too much detail or sharpness from the image. I like the way it came out.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/TheMoonOrTheSun.jpg\" alt=\"mystery landscape\" width=\"400\" height=\"602\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-19645\" \/>Meanwhile, I present another image with a curious effect, but I have to admit this isn&#8217;t the best way of presenting it. It should be casually inserted into a gallery of other images without comment, letting people skim over it if they&#8217;re so inclined, waiting to see how many people catch the peculiarity of it. All I will tell you is that there is no trickery involved.<br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p>If you figured out what was special about it, good! And if not, even better, because it means it was as confusing as I&#8217;d hoped. If you were definitely wondering about the odd appearance of the sun or moon in there, I&#8217;d be happy. But perhaps it wasn&#8217;t that hard after all. Regardless, here&#8217;s the image as shot.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/NotTheMoon.jpg\" alt=\"maybe not so mysterious now\" width=\"730\" height=\"1099\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19646\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>I had been looking at the reflections of the bare trees in the nearly motionless water of a small stream, wondering how to make it slightly more interesting, when I saw the leaf approaching on the feeble current. It took a couple of minutes for it to get into position where I wanted it, probably making Mr Bugg wonder what the hell I was up to just standing there staring at the water, but again, I like the end result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn&#8217;t really pass this one up, as curious as it is. Back in October when cruising through the NC Botanical Garden, I happened across a small flowering plant, almost ready to blossom out, and the spiral pattern of the buds was compelling, so of course I had to go in straight down from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1903,4,3],"tags":[3627],"class_list":["post-19642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-because","category-nature","category-photo","tag-ill-try-harder-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19642","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=19642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}