{"id":6447,"date":"2014-10-18T08:24:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T21:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=6447"},"modified":"2014-10-18T08:24:13","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T21:24:13","slug":"weekly-photo-challenge-refraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=6447","title":{"rendered":"Weekly photo challenge:  Refraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walking beside Lake Burley Griffin this afternoon, around the back of the National Museum, I found these panels of mirrors reflecting, in a warped kind of way, rows of slim young gum trees growing near the water.\u00a0 I was under the trees with a project of photographing details, but what caught my eye was this long image of the very trees I was under:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6449\" src=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/external-mirrors-nma-1.jpg?w=750\" alt=\"External mirrors NMA 1\" width=\"750\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/external-mirrors-nma-1.jpg 5411w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/external-mirrors-nma-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/external-mirrors-nma-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/external-mirrors-nma-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/external-mirrors-nma-1-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What a simple way to adorn an otherwise ugly set of slopey walls:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6450\" src=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/external-mirrors-nma-2.jpg?w=750\" alt=\"External mirrors NMA 2\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/external-mirrors-nma-2.jpg 5472w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/external-mirrors-nma-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/external-mirrors-nma-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/external-mirrors-nma-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/external-mirrors-nma-2-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The panels create the effect of fun-house mirrors, bending and twisting the straight tree trunks:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6453\" src=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/external-mirrors-nma-5.jpg?w=750\" alt=\"External mirrors NMA 5\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/external-mirrors-nma-5.jpg 5472w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/external-mirrors-nma-5-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/external-mirrors-nma-5-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/external-mirrors-nma-5-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/external-mirrors-nma-5-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fun to look at and fun to photograph:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6457\" src=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/external-mirrors-nma-4.jpg?w=750\" alt=\"External mirrors NMA 4\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/external-mirrors-nma-4.jpg 5472w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/external-mirrors-nma-4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/external-mirrors-nma-4-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/external-mirrors-nma-4-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/external-mirrors-nma-4-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the <a href=\"http:\/\/dailypost.wordpress.com\/dp_photo_challenge\/refraction\/\" target=\"_blank\">weekly photo challenge<\/a> topic serendipitously coincides with my weekend outing.\u00a0 I love it when that happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking beside Lake Burley Griffin this afternoon, around the back of the National Museum, I found these panels of mirrors reflecting, in a warped kind of way, rows of slim young gum trees growing near the water.\u00a0 I was under the trees with a project of photographing details, but what caught my eye was this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=6447\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weekly photo challenge:  Refraction&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[579,20],"tags":[662,663,655,7,8,568,664],"class_list":["post-6447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canberra","category-my-photos","tag-gum-trees","tag-mirrors","tag-national-museum-of-australia","tag-photography","tag-photos-2","tag-postaday-2014","tag-weekly-photo-challenge-refraction"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}