{"id":1134,"date":"2018-08-22T16:15:01","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T16:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/?p=1134"},"modified":"2018-08-22T16:15:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T16:15:01","slug":"public-art-on-utility-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/public-art-on-utility-boxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Art (on utility boxes)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1135\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1135\" style=\"width: 1800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PublicArt_20180816.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1135\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PublicArt_20180816.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1003\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PublicArt_20180816.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PublicArt_20180816-340x189.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PublicArt_20180816-768x428.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/PublicArt_20180816-1024x571.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1135\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Public art on utility boxes, downtown Peabody MA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Stopping at a coffee shop downtown, I put a quarter in the parking meter.\u00a0 When I returned, 20 minutes remained on the meter, so I took a short walk.\u00a0 That&#8217;s when I happily discovered art on a utility box &#8230; and another &#8230; and another.<\/p>\n<p>While I prefer a camera with interchangeable lenses, at times like this I am happy to have\u00a0a mobile phone with a camera.\u00a0\u00a0My phone-camera is\u00a0not a great camera, but as the saying goes &#8230;\u00a0 the best camera is the one you have with you.<\/p>\n<p>I must also note that Android \/ Google Photos includes some photo post-processing functions that I rarely use but did use here.\u00a0 The leftmost image was badly overexposed.\u00a0 The problem was very well solved by applying &#8220;auto&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>(No, I&#8217;m not giving up my big interchangable-lens cameras.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stopping at a coffee shop downtown, I put a quarter in the parking meter.\u00a0 When I returned, 20 minutes remained on the meter, so I took a short walk.\u00a0 That&#8217;s when I happily discovered art on a utility box &#8230; and another &#8230; and another. While I prefer a camera with interchangeable lenses, at times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,20],"tags":[192],"class_list":["post-1134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newengland","category-photo","tag-publicart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1136,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions\/1136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}