{"id":666,"date":"2012-07-09T22:05:31","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T02:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/?p=666"},"modified":"2012-07-09T22:05:31","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T02:05:31","slug":"anchoring-the-abyss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/?p=666","title":{"rendered":"Anchoring the Abyss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Old piers and sea structures are amazing.\u00a0 How they withstand the test of time, the tides and undercurrents, and the extreme weather elements, I&#8217;ll never know.\u00a0 They are stalwart giants engulfed by the perpetual movement of water and sand.\u00a0 There is nothing around them that is foundational or solid, yet they find a way to be anchored and stationary.<\/p>\n<p>I am always a sucker for textures, as well as geometric shapes and perspectives, too.\u00a0 Yet another reason they draw me in.<\/p>\n<p>My intent here was to not only capture the structure itself, but also the moving sea.\u00a0 I wanted to do so in such a way as to draw the viewer&#8217;s eye into the somewhat mysterious and ethereal motion of the water.\u00a0 It is sometimes difficult to capture the water&#8217;s motion in such a way, and at the proper moment, as to balance both energy and definition of the waves and textures.\u00a0 I&#8217;m pretty happy with these results, and I like the shape and definition of the beach in the foreground.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_667\" style=\"width: 533px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-667\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-667\" title=\"Flagler_0037-40\" src=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Flagler_0037-40-523x700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"523\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Flagler_0037-40-523x700.jpg 523w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Flagler_0037-40-765x1024.jpg 765w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Flagler_0037-40.jpg 1309w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-667\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pier at Flagler Beach, FL<\/p><\/div>\n<p>5D MkII, 16-35L II @ 16mm, .6sec @ f\/8, ISO 100<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old piers and sea structures are amazing.\u00a0 How they withstand the test of time, the tides and undercurrents, and the extreme weather elements, I&#8217;ll never know.\u00a0 They are stalwart giants engulfed by the perpetual movement of water and sand.\u00a0 There is nothing around them that is foundational or solid, yet they find a way to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}