{"id":1257,"date":"2015-05-15T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T16:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/?p=1257"},"modified":"2015-05-13T09:32:23","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T16:32:23","slug":"nablopomo-day-15-black-and-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/15\/nablopomo-day-15-black-and-white\/","title":{"rendered":"NaBloPoMo Day 15: Black and White"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today\u2019s NaBloPoMo Prompt:<\/strong> Have you ever developed a crush on someone due to a photograph?<\/em><\/p>\n

Sure I have. I\u2019m a sucker for a pretty face. I\u2019m sure I\u2019ve developed many many crushes. But what\u2019s a crush. A fantasy, an idealism. And people let you down when they step out of the photo and say something stupid or do something stupid or forget to bother to like you back.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s a pretty face but symmetry and balance, and what\u2019s photography but an idealization of an idea. We say that a person is \u201ccaptured\u201d in a photo and let\u2019s face it: only captives are fit for being obsessed with. Free people are too complicated and nuanced and shifting in their changes to compel longing for two long.
\nWe think of our crush, and we \u201cpicture\u201d them in our minds. They\u2019re frozen, perfect, timeless.<\/p>\n

Until the next pretty face comes along and we start all over again. Sometimes its years later. Sometimes its minutes. This is the internet age: I\u2019ve been know to develop and forget crushes several times over just a few seconds.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s NaBloPoMo Photo Prompt:<\/strong> Black and White<\/em><\/p>\n

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A #heron wading, watching at #RichmondBeach on a cloudy morning in #September.<\/a><\/p>\n

A photo posted by Jason Edwards (@bukkhead) on