{"id":2568,"date":"2014-03-27T15:22:04","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T21:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/?p=2568"},"modified":"2014-03-27T15:22:04","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T21:22:04","slug":"abstracting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/2014\/03\/27\/abstracting\/","title":{"rendered":"Abstracting"},"content":{"rendered":"ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s because I&#8217;ve been looking at photos for so long, but I tend to prefer abstracted photos. They often keep my attention longer. ngg_shortcode_1_placeholderThey add another layer to the meaning of the photo. It&#8217;s no longer just the subject, but the subject being affected by or interacting with something. Abstracting can change a normal scene into lines and shapes and colors that interact in a way we wouldn&#8217;t normally expect. It takes an expected scene and turns it into a beautiful little mystery.<\/p>\n<p>This is a ochre sea star and an anemone on Vancouver Island. The tide was coming in, and every once in a while a wave would make its way into this tidepool and disturb the water. It caught my eye, and I like the version with ripples a lot  more than the one taken with placid water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s because I&#8217;ve been looking at photos for so long, but I tend to prefer abstracted photos. They often keep my attention longer. They add another layer to the meaning of the photo. It&#8217;s no longer just the subject, but the subject being affected by or interacting with something. Abstracting can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[739,730,728],"tags":[2796,2800,2795,1175,2798,1617,2802,468,2799,2787,2797,167,2801,2882,2650,1167,1954],"class_list":["post-2568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abstract-2","category-macro-2","category-water-2","tag-abstracted-photos","tag-attention","tag-beautiful-little-mystery","tag-colors","tag-expected-scene","tag-eye","tag-layer","tag-lines","tag-normal-scene","tag-ochre-sea-star","tag-placid-water","tag-ripples","tag-shapes","tag-subject","tag-tide","tag-vancouver-island","tag-wave"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2568"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2574,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions\/2574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}