{"id":8132,"date":"2010-11-18T00:36:16","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T08:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/?p=8132"},"modified":"2010-11-18T00:36:16","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T08:36:16","slug":"texturizing-a-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/?p=8132","title":{"rendered":"Texturizing a Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.
\n~ Kazuo Ishiguro<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I saw a crow yesterday, seized in midair by a gale. Just five feet from her tree, she paddled against the swell like a swimmer in an Endless Pool<\/a>. I may not remember her well, except as form and contrast against the texture of turbulence . . . or later, as a black specter against the dusk, clutching the willow branch as rains came in. <\/p>\n

It made me think of Ocean Beach<\/a> in my home of San Francisco — how the Pacific breaks at the city’s doorstep, and how you can feel the surf’s grit and salt, long after the storm<\/a> sweeps through. I texturized the beach in my mind, in the colorless grain of a passing memory.<\/p>\n\n

The Photos:<\/b>The photo process here was simple, using a free texture from SkeletalMess<\/a> on Flickr (thanks, SkM) , I added a layer and overlay at varying opacities (50% to 70%). I then applied a Nik Software<\/a> filter, Silver Efex, adding some film grain and burned edges. With a few of the photos I used other Nik filters in Color Efex Pro, the Darken\/Lighten Center mode as well as the Soft Focus filter and Glamour Glow.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro I saw a crow yesterday, seized in midair by a gale. Just five feet from her tree, she paddled against the swell like a swimmer in an Endless Pool. I may not remember her well, except as form and contrast against the texture of turbulence . . . or later, as a […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[358],"class_list":["post-8132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ravens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}