{"id":1056,"date":"2026-08-24T06:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/pinbin\/scale-and-how-to-lose-it\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T06:15:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T06:15:00","slug":"scale-and-how-to-lose-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/pinbin\/scale-and-how-to-lose-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Scale, and How to Lose It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is nothing in a dune field to tell you how big anything is. No trees, no buildings, no horizon you can trust. For twenty minutes this was an abstract \u2014 two tones of orange meeting along a curve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then a line of figures crested the ridge and the whole frame snapped into proportion. They are roughly four hundred metres away. The dune is about the height of a fifteen-storey building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have a dozen frames of the same curve without them. None of them are photographs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is nothing in a dune field to tell you how big anything is. Then a line of figures crests the ridge and the whole frame snaps into proportion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[226,227,228],"class_list":["post-1056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landscape","tag-desert","tag-minimalism","tag-scale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/pinbin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/pinbin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/pinbin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/pinbin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/pinbin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/pinbin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/pinbin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/pinbin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/pinbin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/pinbin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}