{"id":409,"date":"2011-07-16T19:47:29","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T19:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/?p=409"},"modified":"2011-07-16T19:47:29","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T19:47:29","slug":"featured-image-oblivion-lovers-by-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/featured-image-oblivion-lovers-by-the-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"FEATURED IMAGE: Oblivion: Lovers by the Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Oblivion, South Wales documentary photography\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6125\/5943022979_c587fdd647_o.jpg\" alt=\"Oblivion, South Wales documentary photography\" \/><\/p>\n<p>People ask me what I like about being a documentary photographer. I tell them that I love the special gift that comes with being a photographer; the privileged ability to record memories and moments in time. And if successful, to each viewer, the image will retell the very story that the photographer saw, a story that moved them so much that they chose to document that moment.<\/p>\n<p>It was during a fashion shoot that I spotted this couple sitting by the waters edge. Seeing them huddled up, looking out over a tempestuous sea made me pause a moment, reset my camera and capture a memory they thought might only be theirs.<\/p>\n<p>What was the moment that I saw? A story of lovers oblivious to anything else. Their world stood still &#8211; it was just them, their love and the sea.<\/p>\n<p><em>[Best viewed whilst listening to &#8216;By the Sea&#8217; by Suede, if you will]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People ask me what I like about being a documentary photographer. I tell them that I love the special gift that comes with being a photographer; the privileged ability to record memories and moments in time. And if successful, to each viewer, the image will retell the very story that the photographer saw, a story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,3,26,106,6],"tags":[9,100,88,56,113,111,110,109,107,51,244,108,114,10,112,97],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentary","category-editorial","category-featured","category-image","category-stories-behind-the-images","tag-beach","tag-coast","tag-couple","tag-documentary-2","tag-lovers","tag-memories","tag-memory","tag-moment","tag-musing","tag-photographer","tag-photography","tag-recording","tag-romance","tag-sea","tag-seaside","tag-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411,"href":"https:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marieman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}