{"id":3563,"date":"2022-07-04T07:12:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T11:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/?p=3563"},"modified":"2022-07-04T12:17:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T16:17:21","slug":"altered-horizons-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/altered-horizons-59\/","title":{"rendered":"Altered Horizons 59"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/AH59FireflySkyPost.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3564 size-large\" title=\"Altered Horizons 59 Robin Botie of Ithaca, New York, photoshops fabricated landscapes in dealing with depression and coping with loss.\" src=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/AH59FireflySkyPost-686x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Altered Horizons 59 Robin Botie of Ithaca, New York, photoshops fabricated landscapes in dealing with depression and coping with loss.\" width=\"625\" height=\"933\" data-popupalt-original-title=\"null\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/AH59FireflySkyPost-686x1024.jpg 686w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/AH59FireflySkyPost-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/AH59FireflySkyPost-768x1147.jpg 768w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/AH59FireflySkyPost-603x900.jpg 603w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/AH59FireflySkyPost-624x932.jpg 624w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/AH59FireflySkyPost.jpg 964w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In the quiet dark of a summer night, fireflies twinkle like stars. Much folklore and symbolism related to death surround fireflies, also known as lightening bugs. There was a Victorian superstition that if a firefly was spotted in the house, someone would die soon. In Japanese legends fireflies are the souls of the dead, particularly of warriors who had fallen in battle. Some say that gazing into a field of fireflies, one can feel the presence of lost loved ones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">My camera couldn\u2019t capture the flickering and flashing dances of the fireflies. So, creating this fabricated landscape in Photoshop, I painted tiny white lights over images of algae sheets raked from my pond. I topped it off with a photo of the pond reflecting the sun and clouds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Altered Horizons 59<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the quiet dark of a summer night, fireflies twinkle like stars. Much folklore and symbolism related to death surround fireflies, also known as lightening bugs. There was a Victorian superstition that if a firefly was spotted in the house, someone would die soon. In Japanese legends fireflies are the souls of the dead, particularly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2254],"tags":[2401,2259,705,2271,2399,2232,2351,2270,2255],"class_list":["post-3563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-h","tag-altered-horizons-59","tag-coping-with-change","tag-dealing-with-depression","tag-fabricated-landscapes","tag-firefly-superstitions","tag-loss-and-grief","tag-therapeutic-photography","tag-upended-life","tag-upside-down-world"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}