{"id":11266,"date":"2015-10-24T06:53:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-24T11:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=11266"},"modified":"2015-10-24T06:53:16","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T11:53:16","slug":"photos-of-the-day-autumn-abstracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2015\/10\/24\/photos-of-the-day-autumn-abstracts\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo(s) of the day: Autumn abstracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">A<\/span>lthough one never really gets tired of taking photographs of beautiful autumn leaves, sometimes it&#8217;s good to find new ways to approach them and stretch one&#8217;s creativity. I took these photos with a slow shutter while moving my camera slightly (or not so slightly) so the autumn trees are intentionally blurred and rendered somewhat abstract.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/22419774832\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"autumn abstracts-2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/694\/22419774832_b206cdddcc_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"autumn abstracts-2\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I happen to be a reasonably literal person without formal art training, so it&#8217;s hard for me to evaluate what makes an abstract painting work. I can tell you that they have elements that most photography books will tell you are pleasing: repetition of pattern, rhythm, motion. The colours and tones are pleasing. In two of the three, it&#8217;s quite clear that you&#8217;re seeing an abstraction of trees, and it&#8217;s not hard to guess with the third what you are seeing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/21811879023\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"autumn abstract\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5772\/21811879023_e970779b32_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"autumn abstract\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Still, I&#8217;m not sure. Are these good? I think they&#8217;re interesting, at least. If they made you pause for a second and study them, wonder about them, then that&#8217;s good, right? But what story do they tell?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/21811878773\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"autumn abstracts-3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5675\/21811878773_b9baf69cf6_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"autumn abstracts-3\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hmm. Art. The more I know, the more I feel like I have so much left to learn. What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although one never really gets tired of taking photographs of beautiful autumn leaves, sometimes it&#8217;s good to find new ways to approach them and stretch one&#8217;s creativity. I took these photos with a slow shutter while moving my camera slightly (or not so slightly) so the autumn trees are intentionally blurred and rendered somewhat abstract. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2015\/10\/24\/photos-of-the-day-autumn-abstracts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Photo(s) of the day: Autumn abstracts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11268,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11266\/revisions\/11268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}