{"id":2024,"date":"2010-12-30T08:44:25","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T16:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=2024"},"modified":"2010-12-30T08:44:25","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T16:44:25","slug":"beaver-lodge-fraser-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=2024","title":{"rendered":"Beaver lodge, Fraser River."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"frame-outer  aligncenter size-full wp-image-2023\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/MinoltaX700_Nov28_001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2023\" title=\"MinoltaX700_Nov28_001\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/MinoltaX700_Nov28_001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/MinoltaX700_Nov28_001.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/MinoltaX700_Nov28_001-e1293169991382-150x78.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/MinoltaX700_Nov28_001-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/MinoltaX700_Nov28_001-1024x534.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>While photographs should be able to speak for themselves\u00a0it doesn&#8217;t hurt to have an understanding of what the artist intended.\u00a0Yes this is an image of a beaver lodge in an uncommon place,\u00a0at the same time it is an image of the construction work going on on the other side of the river.\u00a0All that shields the natural world here from subjugation is\u00a0a thin band of water.\u00a0 There is little point in re iterating how we are encroaching on the habitat of animals we are long past that in most cases but the question should be now what do we do.\u00a0 Do we accept there disappearance from where we live or do we provide some territory\u00a0for them so that we might retain a connection to them and the land, to our benefit as much as theirs.\u00a0 This year near my home two areas of\u00a0 wild grasses and flowers\u00a0I photographed have been cleared for a new shopping mall and a townhouse development surely displacing whatever small mammals and birds lived there and the owls that preyed on them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While photographs should be able to speak for themselves\u00a0it doesn&#8217;t hurt to have an understanding of what the artist intended.\u00a0Yes this is an image of a beaver lodge in an uncommon place,\u00a0at the same time it is an image of the construction work going on on the other side of the river.\u00a0All that shields the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,37,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-observations","category-composition-photography","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2024"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2030,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions\/2030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}