{"id":3669,"date":"2020-01-21T18:25:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T23:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3669"},"modified":"2020-01-22T06:34:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T11:34:07","slug":"three-enigmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3669","title":{"rendered":"Three enigmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some photographs resist simple interpretation, even when their ostensible subject matter (ice, sand, rock&#8230;) is clear. Sometimes it&#8217;s possible to imagine a figure or a face, but even the most fertile imagination runs up against limits now and again, and one is tugged into surreal territory. Here are three such that I&#8217;m puzzling over, from a trip to Drift Inn a few days ago:<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/49405123516\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"18i2023\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49405123516_aa6888d247.jpg\" width=\"314\" height=\"500\" alt=\"18i2023\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nalmost Arcimboldoesque, a right-facing head ?<\/p>\n<p>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/49405132501\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"18i2026\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49405132501_b6ae68a28f.jpg\" width=\"326\" height=\"500\" alt=\"18i2026\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\n? a demonic cocktail shaker ? a flamingo executing a jet&eacute; ?<\/p>\n<p>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/49404662568\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"18i2027\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49404662568_06d40406fc.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"18i2027\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nscale indeterminate: ? a view outward toward the Cosmos? satellite view of a caldera?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some photographs resist simple interpretation, even when their ostensible subject matter (ice, sand, rock&#8230;) is clear. Sometimes it&#8217;s possible to imagine a figure or a face, but even the most fertile imagination runs up against limits now and again, and one is tugged into surreal territory. Here are three such that I&#8217;m puzzling over, from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ot","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669","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=3669"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3672,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669\/revisions\/3672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}