{"id":3749,"date":"2013-10-11T00:11:28","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T05:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/?p=3749"},"modified":"2013-10-11T00:11:28","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T05:11:28","slug":"outstanding-in-the-field-and-a-different-sort-of-crop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=3749","title":{"rendered":"Outstanding in the field, and a different sort of crop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/2013\/10\/lonely_tree_0033.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3745\" alt=\"lonely_tree_0033\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/2013\/10\/lonely_tree_0033.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2013\/10\/lonely_tree_0033.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2013\/10\/lonely_tree_0033-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2013\/10\/lonely_tree_0033-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve known of this tree for years, and even tried to get some photos of it, but never found myself in the Valley City area at a time where the field and the skies were really conducive to a good shot.\u00a0 Thankfully I had good timing as I drove past it this week and was able to pause to snap a few quick shots out the window.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/2013\/10\/lonely_tree_crops_0033.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3751\" alt=\"lonely_tree_crops_0033\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/2013\/10\/lonely_tree_crops_0033.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2013\/10\/lonely_tree_crops_0033.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2013\/10\/lonely_tree_crops_0033-150x124.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2013\/10\/lonely_tree_crops_0033-361x300.jpg 361w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>My friend Ken still has the best photo if this tree that I&#8217;ve ever seen, but even in my haste I think I was able to get a couple of satisfactory shots.\u00a0 It&#8217;s all in the cropping.\u00a0 By deviating from the standard 4&#215;3 aspect ratio and making the shot appear wider I was able to convey the unique solitude of the tree out in the middle of the expanse of the field.\u00a0 Above are a couple of examples.\u00a0 I wish I&#8217;d have shot a little wider for a few frames to produce a few with even more background, but these will have to do&#8230;until next time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve known of this tree for years, and even tried to get some photos of it, but never found myself in the Valley City area at a time where the field and the skies were really conducive to a good &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=3749\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-road","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749","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=3749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3752,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749\/revisions\/3752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}