{"id":657,"date":"2013-05-10T10:41:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T00:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/657-day-496-on-and-out-to-sea.html"},"modified":"2013-05-09T14:19:03","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T03:49:03","slug":"day-496-on-and-out-to-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/657-day-496-on-and-out-to-sea.html","title":{"rendered":"Day 496, On and Out To Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:1028 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"597\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/496-_MG_4681-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nMore and more I am noticing the role reflections have on composition and bringing a dynamic element to a scene.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIt is funny how the brain works. Most of the time it sees what it believes is there and the uses the visual input to validate it rather than the other way around. When water is perfectly still I find myself marveling in the beautiful reflections but is there is just a little bit of surface disturbance the entire scene reverts to normal and the reflection goes unnoticed.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nHere is where a photograph is different. Now even quite poor reflections become very important in creating the scene, the feel and the sense of a reality. Here in this image of the Seaview Road bridge over the Torrens River these soft reflections, though not perfect, provide what feels like to me a strong but gentle counterpoise to the complex and almost harsh detail being reflected.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOr maybe all you see is a bridge!<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, \u2018Day 496, On and Out To Sea&#8217; 0.6s f\/7.1 ISO160 15mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; More and more I am noticing the role reflections have on composition and bringing a dynamic element to a scene. It is funny how the brain works. Most of the time it sees what it believes is there and the uses the visual input to validate it rather than the other &#8230; <a title=\"Day 496, On and Out To Sea\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/657-day-496-on-and-out-to-sea.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Day 496, On and Out To Sea\">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-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","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=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}