{"id":104,"date":"2014-08-06T03:08:03","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T03:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.johnbotton.com\/?page_id=104"},"modified":"2025-06-06T05:35:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T17:35:57","slug":"mucking-about-on-a-boat","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.johnbotton.com\/index.php\/mucking-about-on-a-boat\/","title":{"rendered":"Mucking About On A Boat"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Equal parts observational and absurd, Mucking About On A Boat<\/em> is a wry visual diary captured aboard a cruise ship\u2014where polished surfaces, staged leisure, and the surreal routines of life at sea unfold in quiet spectacle.<\/p>

From sunbathers and safety drills to geometric shadows and forgotten objects, each image peels back the surface gloss to reveal the peculiar charm of cruise culture. There\u2019s a dry humour at play, but also a genuine curiosity\u2014a photographer mucking about, camera in hand, catching the strange poetry of floating life.<\/p>

This series doesn\u2019t romanticise the voyage. Instead, it leans into the in-between moments, the liminal spaces, and the little oddities that make being at sea both magical and mildly ridiculous. Think less \u201cgrand adventure,\u201d more \u201cironic shuffleboard with great lighting.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Mucking About On A Boat Equal parts observational and absurd, Mucking About On A Boat is a wry visual diary captured aboard a cruise ship\u2014where polished surfaces, staged leisure, and the surreal routines of life at sea unfold in quiet spectacle. From sunbathers and safety drills to geometric shadows and forgotten objects, each image peels […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-104","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnbotton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnbotton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnbotton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnbotton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnbotton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnbotton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11050,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnbotton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104\/revisions\/11050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnbotton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}