{"id":282,"date":"2022-09-27T23:47:22","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T23:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/strangecontrivances.com\/?p=282"},"modified":"2022-09-27T23:53:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T23:53:17","slug":"mesquite-dawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strangecontrivances.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/27\/mesquite-dawn\/","title":{"rendered":"Mesquite Dawn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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When discussing photography as art, I don’t feel particularly defensive. Pictures like this can happen in a moment, but in that case you still need the equipment to seize the moment and share it later. When it involves waking up before dawn and being ready to take a picture of a dramatic tree and set the rising glow behind it, there is some conscious creativity and planning involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click on an image, open it in a new window, and then you can judge if the effort was worth it. For those that are interested in the details, this was taken with a Nikon D5600 with a Tamron 18 to 200mm lens. The originals are 6000 X 4000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When discussing photography as art, I don’t feel particularly defensive. Pictures like this can happen in a moment, but in that case you still need the equipment to seize the moment and share it later. When it involves waking up before dawn and being ready to take a picture of a dramatic tree and set …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-for-sale","category-photo","post_format-post-format-gallery","entry entry-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strangecontrivances.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strangecontrivances.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strangecontrivances.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strangecontrivances.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strangecontrivances.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/strangecontrivances.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"https:\/\/strangecontrivances.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strangecontrivances.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strangecontrivances.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strangecontrivances.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strangecontrivances.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}