{"id":7,"date":"2008-05-18T23:34:29","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T05:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendurbin.com\/sourdough-trail\/?p=7"},"modified":"2008-05-27T22:47:44","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T04:47:44","slug":"going-with-the-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendurbin.com\/sourdough-trail\/2008\/05\/18\/going-with-the-flow\/","title":{"rendered":"Going with the flow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Water is endlessly fascinating, like fire, especially when moving. It’s an overall impression and the sense of movement that we perceive; it’s impossible to capture and contemplate the instantaneous form of the water surface. That’s precisely what a camera can allow us to do, of course.<\/p>\n

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The result is an image that, because of<\/em> its stillness, fascinates by pulling me in to examine those amazing squiggles. This is the leisurely appreciation denied me by the original subject.<\/p>\n

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The closer I look, the more compelling it becomes. The only limit is the resolution of my camera sensor. And even that is a pretty soft limit, since this sort of image can look good even soft.<\/p>\n

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These elegant patterns appear as decoration of the surface, but in fact they are reflections of branches, cloud, and sky. In what sense is this a photograph of water?<\/p>\n

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Water is endlessly fascinating, like fire, especially when moving. It’s an overall impression and the sense of movement that we perceive; it’s impossible to capture and contemplate the instantaneous form of the water surface. That’s precisely what a camera can allow us to do, of course. The result is an image that, because of its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendurbin.com\/sourdough-trail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","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=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephendurbin.com\/sourdough-trail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendurbin.com\/sourdough-trail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendurbin.com\/sourdough-trail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendurbin.com\/sourdough-trail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}