{"id":3552,"date":"2019-10-11T18:48:45","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T22:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3552"},"modified":"2019-10-11T18:50:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T22:50:18","slug":"trifecta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3552","title":{"rendered":"trifecta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The life of a photograph is pretty chancy: many never get processed from their RAW capture, some of those that do never make it to viewers&#8217; eyes, and some are out there on Flickr but hardly anybody happens upon them. And a few have second and third lives after their original appearance. This one was an offhand grab as we walked along the shore of a pond at Gros Morne National Park in Newfoundland:<center><\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/48623417731\/in\/album-72157710556339622\/\" title=\"GrosMorne002\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48623417731_637af0f74c_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"GrosMorne002\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nSurely geography. I liked it for its ambiguity of scale (an aerial view of an island? a closeup of a mossy rock?), but it&#8217;s had only 4 views by Flickr users. And then this morning (2 months after it was taken) it occurred to me to mirror it, and lo and behold:<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/48880127572\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"verdant owl wings\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48880127572_74b276f5e7_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"213\" alt=\"verdant owl wings\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nI see an owl with wings spread, perhaps closing in on a mouse. There are other possibilities too, of course, but it seemed to me that it belonged in my Flickr Album called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/albums\/72157689951314304\">A Catalog of Wings for Celestials<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd then I happened to look at the lower left hand corner and saw this mountaineer coming around a boulder:<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/48881552183\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"ascent2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48881552183_ab0632f40f_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"434\" alt=\"ascent2\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nSo many wonders&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The life of a photograph is pretty chancy: many never get processed from their RAW capture, some of those that do never make it to viewers&#8217; eyes, and some are out there on Flickr but hardly anybody happens upon them. And a few have second and third lives after their original appearance. This one was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-tessellations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552","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=3552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3554,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552\/revisions\/3554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}