{"id":1951,"date":"2009-11-14T18:56:36","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T18:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=1951"},"modified":"2010-07-24T16:19:49","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T21:19:49","slug":"the-beauty-in-failing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=1951","title":{"rendered":"the beauty in failing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sometimes we go out with our cameras in the hope of freezing the natural world with absolute clarity. Only to find that the light, the film or digital sensor speed, our ability to focus or hold still, produces less than the clarity we hoped for. Yet magic, if not photographic perfection, can occur. We may just find that we captured poetry rather than clarity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(click image for larger view)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/l1100570.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1953\" title=\"l1100570\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/l1100570.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"586\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/l1100570.jpg 1266w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/l1100570-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/l1100570-299x300.jpg 299w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/l1100563.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1963\" title=\"l1100563\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/l1100563.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"586\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/l1100563.jpg 1266w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/l1100563-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/l1100563-299x300.jpg 299w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Leica R8\/DMR, 350 Telyt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes we go out with our cameras in the hope of freezing the natural world with absolute clarity. Only to find that the light, the film or digital sensor speed, our ability to focus or hold still, produces less than the clarity we hoped for. Yet magic, if not photographic perfection, can occur. We may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,51,54,19,33,17,18,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-thoughts","category-documentary","category-fawna","category-hand-made","category-natural-world","category-photography","category-poetry","category-self-expression","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1951"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1960,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions\/1960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}