{"id":362,"date":"2008-08-24T22:00:45","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T22:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=362"},"modified":"2010-07-23T20:26:27","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T01:26:27","slug":"chasing-butterflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=362","title":{"rendered":"chasing butterflies and blue skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">as a child i chased<br \/>\nbutterflies with a net<br \/>\nnow i chase images<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Once caught, I never knew quite what to do with the butterflies. I looked at them under a microscope. I marveled at their color and delicate lightness. I ended up feeling uneasy that, as I studied them, they became less beautiful; battered and wounded. In the end I gave up catching butterflies in nets. Now, catching fleeting moments on a light sensitive surface, I find the opposite. The images become more beautiful as I study them; push the edges around; pull information from them; adjust the colors, tonality and contrast. Yet, I still don&#8217;t know what to do with my catches.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Yesterday, arriving at a favorite bluff, overlooking the great lake Michigan, I found and caught the following:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(click images for larger view)\u00a0<a title=\"l1003574.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/l1003574.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/l1003574.jpg\" alt=\"l1003574.jpg\" width=\"574\" height=\"386\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"l1003577.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/l1003577.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/l1003577.jpg\" alt=\"l1003577.jpg\" width=\"562\" height=\"820\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"l1003581.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/l1003581.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/l1003581.jpg\" alt=\"l1003581.jpg\" width=\"559\" height=\"820\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"l1003590.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/l1003590.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/l1003590.jpg\" alt=\"l1003590.jpg\" width=\"656\" height=\"444\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>as a child i chased butterflies with a net now i chase images Once caught, I never knew quite what to do with the butterflies. I looked at them under a microscope. I marveled at their color and delicate lightness. I ended up feeling uneasy that, as I studied them, they became less beautiful; battered [&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":[3,51,54,19,37,33,17,28,29,39,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-thoughts","category-documentary","category-fawna","category-hand-made","category-landscapes","category-natural-world","category-photography","category-travel","category-self-expression","category-things","category-up-close","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2826,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/2826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}