{"id":23288,"date":"2019-02-01T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T14:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=23288"},"modified":"2019-01-31T14:30:42","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T19:30:42","slug":"storytime-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2019\/02\/storytime-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Storytime 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/OhIrony.jpg\" alt=\"composition notepad along side of forest road\" width=\"750\" height=\"940\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23289\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>This is another (awkward) attempt at photojournalism, like last week&#8217;s, that I came across while skimming through the folders. I used to work in a wooded compound frequented by volunteers, and on the entry road one day I spotted this lost notebook. I got out to retrieve it, and realized that there was a little ironic story right there<strong>;<\/strong> the challenge was getting the right angle to express it in one image. I&#8217;m still not exactly sure that I accomplished this &#8211; it takes a bigger version of the image, at least. But can you see the key element that I&#8217;m referring to?<\/p>\n<p>If not, here&#8217;s a cropped and rotated portion of the frame, making it a bit more obvious.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/ItSaidNotTo.jpg\" alt=\"crop from previous image\" width=\"400\" height=\"471\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-23290\" \/>You&#8217;ll be happy to know that the Eagle Scout, whose name I blanked out here so his future prospects as POTUS are not harmed, did indeed get his notebook back, and is probably spelling &#8220;lose&#8221; properly now every time too. But for my part, I had aimed to get the cover readable in the image while at the same time highlighting the lonely and &#8216;lost&#8217; nature of the area, so needed a wide, low angle with the book close. Feel free to tell me if I succeeded or not, or even that you really don&#8217;t care either way.<br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is another (awkward) attempt at photojournalism, like last week&#8217;s, that I came across while skimming through the folders. I used to work in a wooded compound frequented by volunteers, and on the entry road one day I spotted this lost notebook. I got out to retrieve it, and realized that there was a little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[388,4748,4747],"class_list":["post-23288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-random","tag-photojournalism","tag-stick-to-what-youre-good-at-if-you-ever-find-something","tag-youre-probably-not-even-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23288","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=23288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}