{"id":21473,"date":"2017-12-17T02:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T07:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=21473"},"modified":"2017-12-16T23:36:14","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T04:36:14","slug":"sunday-slide-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2017\/12\/sunday-slide-51\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday slide 51"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/BurlingtonIsland03.jpg\" alt=\"bridge to unnamed island on Haw River\" width=\"730\" height=\"472\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21474\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>So some years back, Jim Kramer (the Official Other Blog Image Contributor) drove us out to a small island in the middle of the Haw River outside of Burlington. At one point well in the past, the island had been occupied, with the remains of a house thereon, and at the time of this image access was still available on foot, though the road up to this bridge was closed to any vehicles. It was a neat little area, even though we visited on a pretty crisp day, and I would certainly like to return, but sometime in the intervening years access has been closed off by the property owner, so it&#8217;s not an option unless they happen to be reading this and realize what kind of <em>fantastic<\/em> images I can provide them. Yeah, anyway&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Now, my attempts to <a href=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2017\/12\/tell-me-what-you-think\/\" target=\"_blank\">mess with the reader<\/a> notwithstanding, I&#8217;m wondering if this image conveys the same thing to others as it does to me, so feel free to pause for a moment and suss out the ambience or whatever.<\/p>\n<p>Because I like to <em>think<\/em> that the condition of the bridge gives a good idea of its age, and the feeling that this is not in regular use anymore &#8211; it&#8217;d be nice if the graffiti wasn&#8217;t there, but there are people everywhere whose minds are as small as their penises, it seems. Is there a hint of abandon and loneliness in the image? Does it seem to imply something long forgotten? I&#8217;m not sure how successful the image is in these regards, but at least I like the dramatic lines and angle. Looking at it now, I wish I&#8217;d done some more images with the dark shadows at the far end, making them more prominent and foreboding &#8211; a little contrast with the bright light and colors here where we stand, and the gloom that you will enter if you dare to cross the bridge. I constantly advise working with interesting subjects in as many ways as possible, to see how many different moods or perspectives can be portrayed, so I&#8217;m always a little irked when I think of something afterward, especially when I can&#8217;t return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So some years back, Jim Kramer (the Official Other Blog Image Contributor) drove us out to a small island in the middle of the Haw River outside of Burlington. At one point well in the past, the island had been occupied, with the remains of a house thereon, and at the time of this image [&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":[1659,107,4221,4220,3327],"class_list":["post-21473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-because","category-nature","category-photo","tag-bridge","tag-haw-river","tag-lonely","tag-old","tag-regrets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21473","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=21473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}