{"id":692,"date":"2008-05-08T14:08:04","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T21:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2008\/05\/08\/venus\/"},"modified":"2008-05-28T08:30:37","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T15:30:37","slug":"venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2008\/05\/08\/venus\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>No, not the planet<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone knows this one:<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Venus01.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"397\"\/><br \/>\n<i>Botticelli.  Venus, 1486. Uffizi, Florence.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s today&#8217;s version:<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Venus02.jpg\" width=\"482\" height=\"640\"\/><br \/>\n<i>Towel advertisement, 2008<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Maybe not as powerful a rendition as with that <a href=http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2008\/02\/29\/raphael-and-advertising\/ target=_blank>Raphael<\/a> but a good effort nonetheless, the towel replacing the hair.  Notice how the towel has been cleverly sculpted to imitate the shell in the original.<\/p>\n<p>And if you are wondering where you saw that backdrop before, look no further than Hearst Castle&#8217;s pool:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/HearstPool.jpg\"><br \/>\n<i>Canon 5D, 14mm &#8216;L&#8217; lens.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, not the planet. Everyone knows this one: Botticelli. Venus, 1486. Uffizi, Florence. And here&#8217;s today&#8217;s version: Towel advertisement, 2008 Maybe not as powerful a rendition as with that Raphael but a good effort nonetheless, the towel replacing the hair. Notice how the towel has been cleverly sculpted to imitate the shell in the original. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2008\/05\/08\/venus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Venus<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-painters-and-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}