{"id":10559,"date":"2023-07-01T09:37:55","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T07:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/01\/it-looked-like-an-alien-landscape-sheldon-serkins-best-phone-picture\/"},"modified":"2023-07-01T09:37:55","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T07:37:55","slug":"it-looked-like-an-alien-landscape-sheldon-serkins-best-phone-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/01\/it-looked-like-an-alien-landscape-sheldon-serkins-best-phone-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It looked like an alien landscape\u2019: Sheldon Serkin\u2019s best phone picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a street photographer in a New York zoo, wildlife and children came together brilliantly<\/p>\n<p>It happens to be his daughter Tess\u2019s 16th birthday on the day I speak with Sheldon Serkin about this photograph, which he took when Tess (on right) was just six. Sheldon and his wife, Tali, had taken Tess and her older brother, Elliot, to visit an exhibition at New York\u2019s Bronx zoo when they came upon the prairie dog enclosure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to take a photo of these bubbles in the ground, which visitors can climb up into as though they are in with the animals,\u201d Serkin says. \u201cIt looked like an alien landscape to me. I framed the shot without the surrounding spectators, and as one of the prairie dogs took centre stage, children popped up in all three bubbles. It was brilliant timing and made an even better photo than I had anticipated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2023\/jul\/01\/it-looked-like-an-alien-landscape-sheldon-serkins-best-phone-picture\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/9434da63c2459d24a5e967d5bec5b63719068123\/29_775_1882_1129\/master\/1882.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=7804b45728a4ccc1824c284acc7a6d3a\" title=\"\u2018It looked like an alien landscape\u2019: Sheldon Serkin\u2019s best phone picture\" \/>For a street photographer in a New York zoo, wildlife and children came together brilliantly<br \/>\nIt happens to be his daughter Tess\u2019s 16th birthday on the day I speak with Sheldon Serkin about this photograph, which he took when Tess (on right) was just six. Sheldon and his wife, Tali, had taken Tess and her older brother, Elliot, to visit an exhibition at New York\u2019s Bronx zoo when they came upon the prairie dog enclosure.<br \/>\n\u201cI wanted to take a photo of these bubbles in the ground, which visitors can climb up into as though they are in with the animals,\u201d Serkin says. \u201cIt looked like an alien landscape to me. I framed the shot without the surrounding spectators, and as one of the prairie dogs took centre stage, children popped up in all three bubbles. It was brilliant timing and made an even better photo than I had anticipated.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a street photographer in a New York zoo, wildlife and children came together brilliantly It happens to be his daughter Tess\u2019s 16th birthday on the day I speak with Sheldon Serkin about this photograph, which he took when Tess (on right) was just six. Sheldon and his wife, Tali, had taken Tess and her &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/01\/it-looked-like-an-alien-landscape-sheldon-serkins-best-phone-picture\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018It looked like an alien landscape\u2019: Sheldon Serkin\u2019s best phone picture<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10559"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}