{"id":2054,"date":"2009-07-14T06:43:38","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T11:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=2054"},"modified":"2013-06-14T15:38:04","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T20:38:04","slug":"note-the-absence-of-any-space-stations-in-this-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2054","title":{"rendered":"Note the absence of any space stations in this photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/capitol_blue_43271.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>Sometimes I get a bug for a certain photograph and spend my camera opportunities trying to acquire it. While I have plenty of photos of the International Space Station flying over various Bismarck-Mandan landmarks, I wanted another one with the capitol building in the foreground. That has proven quite difficult.<\/p>\n<p>First, we have the night portrayed above. I had bad information; while I had the camera set properly, and managed to get perhaps the sharpest twilight photo of the capitol since I started dabbling in photography, the ISS flew directly over my head (maybe even slightly behind me). Darn.<\/p>\n<p>Last night would have been a perfect night for an ISS capture: it was passing just above the capitol, very brightly, and for several minutes. Then the clouds spoiled it. Grrr.<\/p>\n<p>I already have a photo of the ISS over the capitol; however, I want ANOTHER one. Don&#8217;t worry&#8230;I&#8217;m persistent. It won&#8217;t escape. For now, maybe I&#8217;ll use a more flexible foreground object like a windmill or something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I get a bug for a certain photograph and spend my camera opportunities trying to acquire it. While I have plenty of photos of the International Space Station flying over various Bismarck-Mandan landmarks, I wanted another one with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2054\">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-2054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054","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=2054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2055,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions\/2055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}