{"id":227,"date":"2012-03-15T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T00:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/227-366-days-of-2012-day-75-silhouette-swan.html"},"modified":"2012-03-15T12:53:24","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T02:23:24","slug":"366-days-of-2012-day-75-silhouette-swan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/227-366-days-of-2012-day-75-silhouette-swan.html","title":{"rendered":"366 Days of 2012, Day 75 &#8211; Silhouette Swan"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 --><a href=\"\/serendipity\/\" title=\"Robert&apos;s Ramblings\"><!-- s9ymdb:477 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"720\" height=\"483\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/_MG_8807.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nAlmost without exception I find people like silhouettes. So what makes them so appealing?<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sure it would be fun to explore the psychology of visual perception. Relate the role starkness and high contrast has to perceptions of pleasure as a new born begins translating images into a visual world.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPerhaps I will one day but for now I&#8217;ll just say I love silhouettes for their crispness, their starkness and how they make me feel and not why or how they do it<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;366 Days of 2012, Day 75 &#8211; Silhouette Swan&#8217;. 1\/4000 sec at 200mm f\/2.8, ISO 500<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost without exception I find people like silhouettes. So what makes them so appealing? I&#8217;m sure it would be fun to explore the psychology of visual perception. Relate the role starkness and high contrast has to perceptions of pleasure as a new born begins translating images into a visual world. Perhaps I will one day &#8230; <a title=\"366 Days of 2012, Day 75 &#8211; Silhouette Swan\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/227-366-days-of-2012-day-75-silhouette-swan.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about 366 Days of 2012, Day 75 &#8211; Silhouette Swan\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}