{"id":1717,"date":"2009-10-24T04:43:58","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T08:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/?p=1717"},"modified":"2009-10-24T04:43:58","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T08:43:58","slug":"nocturne-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/1717\/nocturne-iv\/","title":{"rendered":"Nocturne IV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1719\" title=\"NocturneIV_1998\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/NocturneIV_1998.jpg\" alt=\"NocturneIV_1998\" width=\"212\" height=\"432\" \/><br \/>\nI\u2019ve always been fascinated by photographs of the night sky. Telescopes are able to bring back details I could never have seen with the naked eye. Film exaggerates the colors of the stars, which are faint to the human eye. The lens often eliminates the tiny flares we see. When we draw stars, we don\u2019t use circles, we usually use pentagrams. There\u2019s a reason. I can understand that the twinkle and shimmer of the tapestries above would disappear in a photograph. Time is frozen in photographs. But that the photograph would be significantly different than what the human eye sees is fascinating to me. We\u2019re taught to think that the camera records things as we see them. It does to a degree. But there are many points of divergence. It\u2019s almost standard for us to defer to the photograph over our own experience. That\u2019s something I\u2019m wary of \u2014 or let\u2019s say instead, acutely aware of &#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/lib\/statements\/NocturnelV1998.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve always been fascinated by photographs of the night sky. 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