{"id":2080,"date":"2023-01-15T07:25:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T07:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~LucyW\/?p=2080"},"modified":"2023-02-03T04:53:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T04:53:40","slug":"photo-blog-forty-new-years-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~LucyW\/photo-blog-forty-new-years-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Blog Forty: New Year&#8217;s Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~LucyW\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_5269.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2089\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~LucyW\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_5269.png 800w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~LucyW\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_5269-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~LucyW\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_5269-768x513.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Illuminated &#8216;neurons and synapses&#8217;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#91c2a23d\">What&#8217;s happening in our brain circuits? Pops of light and sparks, as dendrites conduct electrical signals to other neurons, sending information to your limbs to carry out a motion, or to your higher-order brain regions of consciousness to support thought. (I don&#8217;t know actually about the pops of light and sparks, but the rest is true!) I took this photo at a shutter speed of 2 seconds, an aperture of 6.3, and an ISO of 100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#91c2a23d\">Before working on this blog prompt, I didn&#8217;t know how to take long-exposure photos, but I fell in love with the beautiful effects we can create through applying it to light. This image,  a zoomed-in view of a foil Christmas tree with small LED lights embedded at points in its branches, reminded me of our neural anatomy and the processes of how our physical biology influences our higher-order functions like remembering, planning ahead, communicating, and reasoning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s happening in our brain circuits? Pops of light and sparks, as dendrites conduct electrical signals to other neurons, sending information to your limbs to carry out a motion, or to your higher-order brain regions of consciousness to support thought. (I don&#8217;t know actually about the pops of light and sparks, but the rest is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~LucyW\/photo-blog-forty-new-years-light\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Photo Blog Forty: New Year&#8217;s Light&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-story_telling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~LucyW\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~LucyW\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~LucyW\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~LucyW\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~LucyW\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~LucyW\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2130,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~LucyW\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions\/2130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~LucyW\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~LucyW\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~LucyW\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}