{"id":6104,"date":"2024-01-30T11:25:45","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T16:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=6104"},"modified":"2024-02-03T11:05:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T16:05:20","slug":"white-witch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=6104","title":{"rendered":"White Witch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Summer I had a request to illustrate a book cover for local author, Dixie Browning. Using her pen name\u00a0<em><strong>Bronwyn Williams<\/strong><\/em>, she was republishing her old novel, entitled <em><strong>White Witch<\/strong><\/em>. I had worked with her and Gee Gee at <strong><em>Buxton Village Books<\/em><\/strong> on several other cover projects. Most of those images required some photoshop tools combining multiple images or enhancements to convey a theme.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>A requirement for this book was to have a live oak near the water with a bird, or birds in flight as a backdrop. I spent two days scouting for a location, that I discovered close to home. The spot was on the shore of Pamlico Sound in Salvo.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/white-witch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6105\" src=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/white-witch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/white-witch.jpg 600w, http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/white-witch-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While experimenting different compositions at a particular tree, I was getting ready to pack it up when I noticed a few soaring birds. Firing several quick shots I captured a lone laughing gull framed through an opening. It was a straight shot and a take!<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.buxtonvillagebooks.com\/book\/9798218206673<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Summer I had a request to illustrate a book cover for local author, Dixie Browning. Using her pen name\u00a0Bronwyn Williams, she was republishing her old novel, entitled White Witch. I had worked with her and Gee Gee at Buxton Village Books on several other cover projects. Most of those images required some photoshop tools [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,27,4,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-pamlico-sound","category-people","category-vegetation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6104"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6115,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6104\/revisions\/6115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}