Revisiting<\/a> post, is in a previously photographed stretch (see winter image below). I didn’t want to do the same view, partly because it tended toward clich\u00e9 to begin with, and partly because a large expanse of plain gray path seemed unattractive.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/stephendurbin.com\/sourdough-trail\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/4096-400.jpg\")
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Should aesthetics govern in such a thing? Well, if not, I wouldn’t be photographing at all. It’s almost painful to make a photograph I don’t care about in that way. Some aesthetic consideration, however idiosyncratic, seems a necessary gesture of respect to both place and myself. But perhaps a little path would be permissible…<\/p>\n
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This short section (five yards? ten?) reminds me of bamboo groves in Japan. It’s a similarity that at the same time reinforces the differences: of leaf, of bark, of girth, of straightness, of darkness of trunk. By knowing another place, I know this place better. Contrast is fundamental.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It has snowed two or three days in a row. I didn’t have long, but wanted to see how the Trail was doing. The spot shown above, like those in the Revisiting post, is in a previously photographed stretch (see winter image below). I didn’t want to do the same view, partly because it tended […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendurbin.com\/sourdough-trail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendurbin.com\/sourdough-trail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendurbin.com\/sourdough-trail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendurbin.com\/sourdough-trail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendurbin.com\/sourdough-trail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephendurbin.com\/sourdough-trail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendurbin.com\/sourdough-trail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendurbin.com\/sourdough-trail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendurbin.com\/sourdough-trail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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