{"id":17685,"date":"2013-02-28T06:31:44","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T11:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=17685"},"modified":"2013-02-20T16:53:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T21:53:31","slug":"underwater-miniatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=17685","title":{"rendered":"Underwater Miniatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/uwminiature.jpg\" alt=\"UW Miniature\" width=\"425\" height=\"301\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17703\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/uwminiature.jpg 425w, http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/uwminiature-150x106.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/uwminiature-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photographer Jason Isley does a lot of underwater photography, but recently found himself running out of ways to make the &#8220;common macro life&#8221; interesting.  His answer was to include plastic miniatures of humans and equipment in the shots, resulting in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/30283068@N02\/sets\/72157631964505553\/with\/8476438944\/\">set of photos<\/a> which have a wonderful &#8220;50s B-movie&#8221; feel to them.  The arrangements very cleverly integrate the figures into the fishy action.  (You can buy prints <a href=\"http:\/\/photogallery.scubazoo.com\/Underwater\/UnderwaterMiniatures\/27800554_5VhG8t#!i=2344470035&#038;k=HGxMZhD\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>This is a splendid idea, not only as a way to add a unique twist to nature photography, but also as aquarium\/vivarium decorations.  You&#8217;d need to make sure that the figures you used weren&#8217;t made of any material that might be toxic to fish, but a burned-out cityscape terrorized by giant hermit crabs or innocent beachgoers being menaced by the Plecostomus of Doom would be <em>way<\/em> more interesting than a plain ol&#8217; treasure chest.<\/p>\n<p><i>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/\">BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographer Jason Isley does a lot of underwater photography, but recently found himself running out of ways to make the &#8220;common macro life&#8221; interesting. His answer was to include plastic miniatures of humans and equipment in the shots, resulting in a set of photos which have a wonderful &#8220;50s B-movie&#8221; feel to them. The arrangements [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paint-it-black"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17685"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17712,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17685\/revisions\/17712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}