{"id":733,"date":"2012-10-09T23:01:18","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T03:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/?p=733"},"modified":"2012-10-09T23:15:23","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T03:15:23","slug":"dusk-at-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/?p=733","title":{"rendered":"Pool at Dusk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;The tide rises, the tide falls,<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Along the sea-sands damp and brown<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The traveler hastens toward the town,<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">And the tide rises, the tide falls.&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<\/p>\n<p>I stumbled upon this Longfellow poem while researching tide pools, and it just seemed to fit the occasion and mood.\u00a0 This traveler was wrapping up the evening at dusk on Cannon Beach, soon to hasten toward town with Carl for dinner and a relaxing evening.<\/p>\n<p>The ebb and flow of tides are amazing phenomena to me, and they often leave small but incredible works of art in the form of pools and sand textures.\u00a0 This evening was no exception.\u00a0 This pool looks much larger than it is due to the distortion of my wide angle lens.\u00a0 In reality, the pool is probably the size of a mattress or a little larger.\u00a0 But I loved the rhyme of it&#8217;s accentuated shape and the opening in the sky just above it, along with the shape of the &#8220;Haystack&#8221; in the background.\u00a0 Geometric shapes and their repetitious relationships almost always make for interesting visual subjects.\u00a0 Likewise, so do complimentary colors like the blues and tobacco-like yellows in this scene.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_734\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-734\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-734\" title=\"IMG_1502\" src=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_1502-700x466.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_1502-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_1502-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_1502.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-734\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tide-Pool at Cannon Beach, OR<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls; Along the sea-sands damp and brown The traveler hastens toward the town, And the tide rises, the tide falls.&#8221; ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I stumbled upon this Longfellow poem while researching tide pools, and it just seemed to fit the occasion and mood.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,5,24,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733"}],"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=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":736,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}