{"id":2125,"date":"2013-12-14T07:26:21","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T12:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=2125"},"modified":"2013-12-14T17:31:49","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T22:31:49","slug":"recent-photographs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=2125","title":{"rendered":"Recent photographs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m particularly fond of photographs that propose some sort of <b>enigma<\/b>, whose full narrative potential is only realized with the addition of something that&#8217;s not manifest in the image alone. &#8216;Whimsical misdirection&#8217; seems like another earmark of this genre. I&#8217;ve done two such puzzle pictures in the last couple of days:<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/11340091396\/\" title=\"Orrs Island mystery by oook, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7321\/11340091396_25c1c67473_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"455\" alt=\"Orrs Island mystery\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/11359208806\/\" title=\"children at play by oook, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3778\/11359208806_b8d609d2ed_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"438\" alt=\"children at play\"><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nAnother, taken a few weeks ago, is a rock creature whose rheumy eye seems to peer warily:<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/10912857666\/\" title=\"askance in BW by oook, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3769\/10912857666_bb1967a294_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" alt=\"askance in BW\"><\/a><\/center>And here&#8217;s one that&#8217;s almost a portrait of a blond-bearded skull:<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/11373877724\/\" title=\"bearded skull by oook, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3698\/11373877724_9888913591_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"bearded skull\"><\/a><\/center><br \/>\n I&#8217;ve done a number of other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/search\/?w=47445802@N00&#038;q=creature\">creatures emerging from occultation<\/a> &#8211;once seen, not easily unseen. A pluripotent realm for further exploration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m particularly fond of photographs that propose some sort of enigma, whose full narrative potential is only realized with the addition of something that&#8217;s not manifest in the image alone. &#8216;Whimsical misdirection&#8217; seems like another earmark of this genre. I&#8217;ve done two such puzzle pictures in the last couple of days: Another, taken a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2125"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2129,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions\/2129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}