{"id":3904,"date":"2012-08-01T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T16:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=3904"},"modified":"2012-07-26T23:11:56","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T06:11:56","slug":"photographic-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=3904","title":{"rendered":"Photographic truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"frame-outer  aligncenter size-full wp-image-3905\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IGP3341.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3905\" title=\"_IGP3341\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IGP3341.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IGP3341.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IGP3341-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This image more closely represents the reality of this birds life than if I took an image of it in a tree with a blurry background, obscuring it&#8217;s true environment.\u00a0 There is nothing wrong with\u00a0taking pictures of animals while creating a visual environment that we would wish for them, but it would be a mistake to think that that is the same thing as them having one.\u00a0 We do virtually the same thing when we look at a scene even without a camera.\u00a0 No one wants to admit that the road they are on exists while they look up at the mountain in front of them.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  aligncenter size-full wp-image-3906\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/K7_9496.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3906\" title=\"_K7_9496\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/K7_9496.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/K7_9496.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/K7_9496-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  aligncenter size-full wp-image-3907\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/K7_9494.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3907\" title=\"_K7_9494\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/K7_9494.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/K7_9494.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/K7_9494-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This image more closely represents the reality of this birds life than if I took an image of it in a tree with a blurry background, obscuring it&#8217;s true environment.\u00a0 There is nothing wrong with\u00a0taking pictures of animals while creating a visual environment that we would wish for them, but it would be a mistake 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