{"id":193,"date":"2006-03-17T06:05:17","date_gmt":"2006-03-17T06:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=193"},"modified":"2011-11-26T06:06:22","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T06:06:22","slug":"wrong-place-right-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"Wrong place, right tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/wrong_place.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>So there I was, walking out of the Harley shop when I saw this amazing sunset. I snapped this picture right away as I dashed for the truck, knowing that I was never going to get to a good location to catch this sky. I was right.<\/p>\n<p>One thing about these amazing ND sunsets is that they last for only a fleeting moment. Within a minute or two, as I dashed towards the trolley bridge for a suitable foreground object, the brilliant reds of this sunset had faded to a subdued bluish gray. So, while I got a nice picture of the sky, I also got a not-so-flattering photo of Royce&#8217;s Produce. Darn.<\/p>\n<p>So, how about a recycled photo of the blockhouses at Fort Lincoln and a little bit of magic (and love)? We&#8217;ll crop the sky a little tighter, remove the wires, and insert a more appealing foreground object:<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/wrong_place2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"346\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>I&#8217;m not in the habit of Photoshoping composites of my photos&#8230;but sometimes it&#8217;s fun to play. Especially when that perfect shot eludes me. This is one big one that got away&#8230;technically. But we can always whip up a consolation prize!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So there I was, walking out of the Harley shop when I saw this amazing sunset. I snapped this picture right away as I dashed for the truck, knowing that I was never going to get to a good location &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=193\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}