{"id":3196,"date":"2017-08-15T08:48:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T12:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3196"},"modified":"2017-08-15T08:54:46","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T12:54:46","slug":"simplicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3196","title":{"rendered":"simplicity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m thinking more and more about an <a href=\"http:\/\/tao-of-digital-photography.blogspot.com\/2017\/08\/upcoming-online-photography-workshop.html\">online photography workshop<\/a> with Andy Ilachinski (see <a href=\"http:\/\/tao-of-digital-photography.blogspot.com\/\">his blog<\/a>) that begins in a month or so. The subject, or title anyhow, is &#8220;Cultivating the Art of Simplicity in Photography&#8221; and so I&#8217;m grappling with what <b>simplicity<\/b> connotes. Seems like a good idea to keep a running tally of thinkage and experiments in this medium.<\/p>\n<p>\nThis foggy morning it occurred to me that we continually process the images&mdash;the video&mdash;of our lives. The focus of our attention, the <b>frame<\/b>, keeps moving, and we extract moments that please us, then (if we&#8217;re photographers) capture as still images to REMEMBER (and perhaps further explore) the moments of pleasedness.<\/p>\n<p>\nThose thoughts in mind, I chanced to look out the window and saw this:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/35749876644\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"out the window\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4401\/35749876644_f894ce83a0.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"379\" alt=\"out the window\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nSince one of the issues I&#8217;m exploring at the moment is the personal importance of monochromatic [&#8220;black &#038; white&#8221;] images, I tried out several filters (red, orange, yellow, green, blue) and chose the green as best exemplifying the overall feel of the moment of capture:<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/36188379030\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"out the window\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4440\/36188379030_198b128bb2.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"379\" alt=\"out the window\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nNow, it&#8217;s not that the image is really marvelous, but it does capture something of where my attention went at the moment: to the fog-shrouded treeline in the distance, to the imperfections in the nearest leaves, to the mid-August moment of Queen Anne&#8217;s Lace in the lower left. The image is a satisfactory rendering of a moment, something not-just-quotidian to contemplate. <\/p>\n<p>\nThere is a sort of <b>simplicity<\/b> here, an encoding of a still and quiet moment. Needs more thought, in a reflective mode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m thinking more and more about an online photography workshop with Andy Ilachinski (see his blog) that begins in a month or so. The subject, or title anyhow, is &#8220;Cultivating the Art of Simplicity in Photography&#8221; and so I&#8217;m grappling with what simplicity connotes. Seems like a good idea to keep a running tally of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-images","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196","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=3196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3198,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions\/3198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}