{"id":398,"date":"2008-09-10T15:53:15","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T15:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=398"},"modified":"2010-07-24T10:56:56","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T15:56:56","slug":"398","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=398","title":{"rendered":"An opportunity to communicate with the ancients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Last week I was given the opportunity to photograph an &#8216;ancient&#8217; stone carving for the purpose of evaluation by experts in antiquities. Working with this object, arranging light to bring out its form, color and texture without exaggeration, proved a challenge. With each failed attempt I learned more about this beautiful object and the light falling upon it.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/mexican_head\" target=\"_blank\">Click this link for additional views of this remarkable piece of stone.<\/a> <span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;\">Vertical = 8.575&#8243;, Horizontal A = 7.755&#8243;, Horizontal B = 4.043&#8243;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;\">(click image for larger view)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"l1090068.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/l1090068.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/l1090068.jpg\" alt=\"l1090068.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I was given the opportunity to photograph an &#8216;ancient&#8217; stone carving for the purpose of evaluation by experts in antiquities. Working with this object, arranging light to bring out its form, color and texture without exaggeration, proved a challenge. With each failed attempt I learned more about this beautiful object and the light [&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":[1,5,3,51,19,4,17,36,29,50,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","category-client-news","category-daily-thoughts","category-documentary","category-hand-made","category-lotter-moser-associates-imagist-news","category-photography","category-sculptural-forms","category-self-expression","category-still-life","category-things","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","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=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2871,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions\/2871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}