{"id":10644,"date":"2016-03-13T05:53:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T10:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=10644"},"modified":"2016-03-12T20:47:55","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T03:47:55","slug":"poems-and-promises-by-rosalind-cook-in-honor-of-eg-camera-girl-and-birdman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=10644","title":{"rendered":"Poems and Promises by Rosalind Cook in Honor of EG Camera Girl and Birdman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Poems and Promises Woodward Park HDR\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/25109060994\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1713\/25109060994_3a2a87b242_z.jpg\" alt=\"Poems and Promises Woodward Park HDR\" width=\"424\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Friday at lunch I hauled the Nikon over to Tulsa&#8217;s Woodward Park to take some pics of stuff. You know Spring type stuff, daffodils and such. I got those pics and I got this one. Actually, this sculpture is hard to photograph decently because it is dark and the shadows and all that so I bracketed it with three photos in succession each about 2 fstops different; under exposed, right exposed, and over exposed. I then combined the three pics with some software I had and I got something halfway decent.<\/p>\n<p>At least we can see her face and the background isn&#8217;t blown out. If I were a photographer instead of picture taker I could monkey around a little more but this what I get.\u00a0This sculpture is named Poems and Promises and it was gifted to the City of Tulsa back in 2010 by the Sculptor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rosalindcook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rosalind Cook<\/a>, and her husband. I think it is incredibly beautiful!!<\/p>\n<p>I got to thinking that I had posted this art before and sure enough I posted some film photos back in 2012 so I went back and <a href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=724\" target=\"_blank\">checked it out <\/a>and and what stunned me were the first two commenters: <a href=\"http:\/\/eastgwillimburywow.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">EG CameraGirl<\/a> and<a href=\"http:\/\/pasttimeamainebackyardandbeyond.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Birdman<\/a>. EG CameraGirl was a Canadian blogger whopassed away at the end of February as a result of car accident where her husband died and Birdman was from Maine and died of a heart attack just after retiring from a long career as a high school teacher.<\/p>\n<p>They were both full of life and had unique blogs and were lively, interesting, and humorous comments and both very encouraging. I never met either one in real life but I feel that I knew them. I know that I miss them both. So this post is dedicated to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday at lunch I hauled the Nikon over to Tulsa&#8217;s Woodward Park to take some pics of stuff. You know Spring type stuff, daffodils and such. I got those pics and I got this one. Actually, this sculpture is hard to photograph decently because it is dark and the shadows and all that so I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[1289,1303,1632,1296,833,1288,1285,1313],"class_list":["post-10644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sculpture","tag-art","tag-blogging","tag-memorial","tag-oklahoma","tag-public-art-2","tag-sculpture","tag-tulsa","tag-woodward-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10645,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10644\/revisions\/10645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}