{"id":541,"date":"2013-09-13T01:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T08:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spottynose.com\/blog\/?p=541"},"modified":"2013-09-12T22:07:38","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T05:07:38","slug":"52-project-recreate-or-imitate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/spottynose.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/52-project-recreate-or-imitate\/","title":{"rendered":"52 Project: Recreate or Imitate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to thank Deana Hurt of StinkDog Photos in Denver, Colorado for choosing this week&#8217;s Beautiful Beasties 52 project theme &#8211; recreate or imitate a piece of art.\u00a0 The assignment TOTALLY pushed me to learn new\u00a0post-production techniques.\u00a0\u00a0Fun, fun, fun!<\/p>\n<p>In my most recent visits to the flea market, I&#8217;ve noticed a few vendors selling\u00a0animal postage stamps from various parts of the world.\u00a0\u00a0 Many will never end up on display\u00a0at a museum, but I&#8217;d still consider them little pieces of art.\u00a0 Wouldn&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-544\" alt=\"source: animalstamps.com\" src=\"http:\/\/spottynose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/T2eC16hHJHoE9n3KhWyOBRhZ84V1+60_3.jpg\" width=\"314\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"http:\/\/spottynose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/T2eC16hHJHoE9n3KhWyOBRhZ84V1+60_3.jpg 314w, http:\/\/spottynose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/T2eC16hHJHoE9n3KhWyOBRhZ84V1+60_3-244x300.jpg 244w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 314px) 100vw, 314px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A quick online search directed me to a number of sites that highlight animal postage stamps (ebay as well!).\u00a0\u00a0For this week&#8217;s assignment, I am\u00a0referencing\u00a0a\u00a0stamp from\u00a0the Republic of Buriatia (which is located in southern Siberia) that was\u00a0distributed in 2001 and featured a German Shorthaired Pointer (source: animalstamps.com).\u00a0 My sister&#8217;s dog, Meekah, is part GSP and was my model recreating the postage stamp\u00a0pictured above.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-545\" alt=\"52 Project - Meekah - Recreate\" src=\"http:\/\/spottynose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_8515_091113.create-postage-stamp.2-835x1024.jpg\" width=\"337\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"http:\/\/spottynose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_8515_091113.create-postage-stamp.2-835x1024.jpg 835w, http:\/\/spottynose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_8515_091113.create-postage-stamp.2-244x300.jpg 244w, http:\/\/spottynose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_8515_091113.create-postage-stamp.2.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 337px) 100vw, 337px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Continue with the blog circle and visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dogfishpetphotography.com\/the-weekly-beasties-project-recreate-or-imitate\/\">Dogfish Pet Photography in Calgary, Alberta <\/a>and check out the next recreation\/imitation project.\u00a0 All the best!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to thank Deana Hurt of StinkDog Photos in Denver, Colorado for choosing this week&#8217;s Beautiful Beasties 52 project theme &#8211; recreate or imitate a piece of art.\u00a0 The assignment TOTALLY pushed me to learn new\u00a0post-production techniques.\u00a0\u00a0Fun, fun, fun! In my most recent visits to the flea market, I&#8217;ve noticed a few vendors selling\u00a0animal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/spottynose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/spottynose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/spottynose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spottynose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spottynose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/spottynose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":553,"href":"http:\/\/spottynose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions\/553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/spottynose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spottynose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spottynose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}