{"id":1517,"date":"2014-05-22T11:04:12","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T19:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2014-05-22T11:08:55","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T19:08:55","slug":"the-mystery-of-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/2014\/05\/22\/the-mystery-of-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mystery of Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AK-Juneau-Hatchery-AASocial-109054-4\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I feel like I’m repeating myself here, but I’m going to anyway (and I’m going to capitalize it for good measure) : Good Images are About Good Stories.<\/p>\n

But there is another ingredient that is often ignored\u00a0and it’s this: ???<\/p>\n

Mystery.<\/p>\n

Sometimes an image should be straight forward, sometimes the story should be there in your face with drama and panache.<\/p>\n

Sometimes, it shouldn’t. Sometimes you should cock your head at a photo and wonder what the heck is happening in there.<\/p>\n

But the balancing act between mystery\u00a0and nonsense is upon a very sharp knife. Many, most, practically all, such images will fail. But a few won’t.<\/p>\n

These kinds of photos won’t likely be the sort that people will ooh and ahh over. They won’t get a thousand likes on Facebook. But what is popular and what is good don’t always coincide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I feel like I’m repeating myself here, but I’m going to anyway (and I’m going to capitalize it for good measure) : Good Images are About Good Stories. But there is another ingredient that is often ignored\u00a0and it’s this: ???… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,19],"tags":[47,116,115,118,117],"class_list":["post-1517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creativity","category-tips","tag-birds-2","tag-mystery","tag-pattern","tag-rain","tag-water"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/AK-Juneau-Hatchery-AASocial-109054-4.jpg?fit=800%2C442&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8wo3z-ot","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1520,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions\/1520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}