{"id":21373,"date":"2017-11-25T07:48:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-25T12:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=21373"},"modified":"2017-11-25T07:48:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-25T12:48:19","slug":"just-because-part-25-the-lead-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2017\/11\/just-because-part-25-the-lead-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Just because, part 25: the lead in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/BloominLily.jpg\" alt=\"backlit water lily with reflection\" width=\"730\" height=\"1095\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21374\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>The two images here both (perhaps obviously) came from the same outing, a student session, but are the inspiration for a composition post soon to appear. Sometimes it takes a little effort to separate ourselves from the concepts we hold of our surroundings to see what&#8217;s actually right in front of us. The image above is more subtle than the one below, but both made use of the flower&#8217;s own reflection as an element in the frame<strong>;<\/strong> below, it is probably even more distinct than the flower itself, despite the brightness of the colors. Both were casual shots, but if I really wanted to do high art, at least I should have picked those distracting bits out of the water and done some slight tweaks in positioning. Of course, if I was <em>really<\/em> into art, I wouldn&#8217;t <em>tell<\/em> you how the images could be better&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/LilyStalk-L.jpg\" alt=\"pond lily on long stalk with curved reflection\" width=\"730\" height=\"1095\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21375\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two images here both (perhaps obviously) came from the same outing, a student session, but are the inspiration for a composition post soon to appear. Sometimes it takes a little effort to separate ourselves from the concepts we hold of our surroundings to see what&#8217;s actually right in front of us. The image above [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[4175,4174,1670,1129],"class_list":["post-21373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-i-should-really-blather-about-spirituality-and-connection","tag-pond-lily","tag-reflections","tag-shadows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21373","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=21373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}