{"id":3303,"date":"2018-02-04T09:44:45","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T14:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3303"},"modified":"2018-02-04T09:44:45","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T14:44:45","slug":"another-case-of-the-ephemeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3303","title":{"rendered":"another case of the Ephemeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I continue to explore the mysteries of connotation that accompany the images in my Flickr photostream, wondering what inspires or provokes their composition and capture. Often it&#8217;s only during the processing phase that I recognize what a photograph contains, or means, or alludes to. This one is an example of an unsolved problem:<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/39353870064\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"DI3ii1820\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4761\/39353870064_9374c668db_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"401\" alt=\"DI3ii1820\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nThis is simply a salt deposit left on a rock by the receding tide, a phenomenon that seems to happen when the air temperature is well below freezing. The next tide will obliterate the pattern, so its life is only a few hours. The complexity seems to demand an interpretation, an effort to parse the pattern for some sort of figurative meaning. Thusfar I haven&#8217;t discerned any faces or other recognizable forms beyond the sinusoidal curve that&#8217;s uppermost. There&#8217;s something evocative of Japanese painting in the deposit below the thicker curve, but overall I have no better option than to label the image as &#8216;abstract&#8217;. So what drew me to it? Why did I capture it? There&#8217;s something elegant in the curves and textures, but beyond that I can&#8217;t reconstruct my specific motivation or thought process. It just seemed to <i>ask<\/i> to be harvested and saved from oblivion.<\/p>\n<p>\nDoes it help at all to mirror the image?<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/39365885744\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"3ii20mirror\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4743\/39365885744_fe905e62c3_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"200\" alt=\"3ii20mirror\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nAh. Now I see something analogous to the figure seen on so many New England gravestones, the symmetrical wings around the death&#8217;s head:<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/37712871844\/in\/album-72157666381715109\/\" title=\"redeem\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4580\/37712871844_9161df62d4_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"redeem\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nBut this symmetrical extension doesn&#8217;t solve any of the original problems of interpretation, or get me any further along in the quest to comprehend the genesis of the image. The original photograph is a satisfying composition, slightly ambiguous in scale, a small detail in the grand complexity of a particular landscape in space and time, and perhaps makes <i>sense<\/i> only in the context of a gatheration of photographs of salt deposits on rocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I continue to explore the mysteries of connotation that accompany the images in my Flickr photostream, wondering what inspires or provokes their composition and capture. Often it&#8217;s only during the processing phase that I recognize what a photograph contains, or means, or alludes to. This one is an example of an unsolved problem: This is [&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-3303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303","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=3303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3304,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3303\/revisions\/3304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}