{"id":136,"date":"2012-04-04T15:26:02","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T15:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielchamberlin.com\/wp\/?page_id=136"},"modified":"2014-02-27T06:25:48","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T06:25:48","slug":"artificial-night-lighting-and-photosynthetic-organisms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/danielchamberlin.com\/?page_id=136","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Night Lighting and Photosynthetic Organisms (2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Artificial Night Lighting and Photosynthetic Organisms<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The photographs in this series were on display at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artcenter.edu\/\">Art Center College of Design<\/a> in Pasadena, CA from December 7-11, 2008. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darksky.org\/mc\/page.do\">Urban outdoor lighting<\/a> produces enough <a href=\"http:\/\/ngm.nationalgeographic.com\/2008\/11\/light-pollution\/klinkenborg-text\">spectral pollution<\/a> to turn the city&#8217;s night sky into an orange-grey dome, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkskyinitiative.org\/index.html\">smudging out<\/a> all but the brightest stars. Of the myriad organisms affected by humanity&#8217;s colonization of the darkness by way of electromagnetic radiation, plants are of particular interest. Plant life cycles revolve according to their light environment: Photoreceptors tell them when to extend stems or broaden leaves; when to germinate and when to die.<\/p>\n<p>These images are an examination of photosynthetic organisms as painted with the palette of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanwildlands.org\/ecanlbook.html\">artificial night lighting<\/a>. The viewer&#8217;s attention is drawn away from the horizon &#8212; where the natural light has disappeared &#8212; to emphasize the industrial lighting on the organic textures. Tree limbs are framed against the night sky, nebulous clouds of leaves reflecting the glare of sodium vapor security lamps; groundcover is shot from directly above, micro-landscapes rendered in the orange halide tones of residential streetlights.<\/p>\n<p>All of these images were made after civil twilight &#8212; when the sun is six degrees below the horizon &#8212; using available light with exposures from 20 to 696 seconds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial Night Lighting and Photosynthetic Organisms &nbsp; The photographs in this series were on display at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA from December 7-11, 2008. Urban outdoor lighting produces enough spectral pollution to turn the city&#8217;s night &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/danielchamberlin.com\/?page_id=136\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-136","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielchamberlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielchamberlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielchamberlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielchamberlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielchamberlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/danielchamberlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224,"href":"https:\/\/danielchamberlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136\/revisions\/224"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielchamberlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielchamberlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}