{"id":53,"date":"2026-06-09T22:40:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T21:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/?p=53"},"modified":"2026-06-09T22:40:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T21:40:24","slug":"3-june-9-2026-observations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/2026\/06\/09\/3-june-9-2026-observations\/","title":{"rendered":"#3 June 9, 2026 Observations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a student of all things photography in nature, I happened across the following items in my news feed today.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Intentional Imperfection is the new aesthetic.<\/strong> As AI-generated images get &#8220;too perfect,&#8221; audiences are gravitating toward motion blur, grain, and messy framing. Authentic, obviously-human-made shots are getting more traction in editorial and gallery contexts.Hmm, does this mean I should take photos while I\u2019m falling down go get \u201cintentional imperfection?\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Photo series beat single images.<\/strong> Galleries, social media, and editorial clients are favoring cohesive series and triptychs over single brilliant frames. Worth thinking about whether your wildlife and landscape work can be packaged as a series with a narrative thread.I do tend to send out a series rather than individual photos in general.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s two photos from the weekend taken at Bowman Bay, Deception Pass State Park, Washington State USA<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54\" src=\"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/06\/20260606-Bowman-Bay-Beach-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/06\/20260606-Bowman-Bay-Beach-1.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/06\/20260606-Bowman-Bay-Beach-1-300x110.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/06\/20260606-Bowman-Bay-Beach-1-1024x376.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/06\/20260606-Bowman-Bay-Beach-1-768x282.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">A view from Bowman Bay Beach &#8212; HDR, three photos stitched together horizontally.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55\" src=\"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/06\/20260606-Bowman-Bay-Beach-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/06\/20260606-Bowman-Bay-Beach-3.jpg 720w, https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/06\/20260606-Bowman-Bay-Beach-3-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2026\/06\/20260606-Bowman-Bay-Beach-3-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Bowman Bay Beach &#8211; Lots of &#8220;silver driftwood&#8221; on the beach<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a wrap for today!<\/p>\n<p>Stay safe!<\/p>\n<p>Ernie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a student of all things photography in nature, I happened across the following items in my news feed today. Intentional Imperfection is the new aesthetic. As AI-generated images get &#8220;too perfect,&#8221; audiences are gravitating toward motion blur, grain, and messy framing. Authentic, obviously-human-made shots are getting more traction in editorial and gallery contexts.Hmm, does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/lightlandandlens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}