{"id":209,"date":"2010-12-30T16:49:01","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T21:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/?p=209"},"modified":"2013-12-17T19:24:07","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T00:24:07","slug":"taking-a-shot-at-photographing-science-and-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/taking-a-shot-at-photographing-science-and-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking a shot at photographing science and nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-210\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin: 5px;\" title=\"Ecologist and photographer Molly Mehling \" alt=\"Ecologist and photographer Molly Mehling \" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Molly-Mehling-300x200.png\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Molly-Mehling-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Molly-Mehling.png 444w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/>Some projects implement photography as a means for exploring societal and environmental issues. One such project is gigapan.org, which allows users to share and discuss panoramic photographs (one of the most famous gigapans is of the 2009 Inauguration of President Barack Obama). Ecologist and photographer Molly Mehling uses gigapan to capture research and encourage conversation and collaboration about science, nature and sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview for <em><a href=\"..\/..\/esablog\/ecologist-2\/ecology-education\/taking-a-shot-at-photographing-science-and-nature\/\">EcoTone<\/a><\/em>, Mehling discussed opportunities for incorporating photography into research and the ways in which images can convey messages about science and nature. Photography can put viewers at the foot of a receding glacier or face-to-face with a humpback whale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some projects implement photography as a means for exploring societal and environmental issues. One such project is gigapan.org, which allows users to share and discuss panoramic photographs (one of the most famous gigapans is of the 2009 Inauguration of President<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/taking-a-shot-at-photographing-science-and-nature\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[112,113,108,114,115,116,118,119,120,121,122],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}