{"id":4895,"date":"2016-01-02T00:54:04","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T05:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=4895"},"modified":"2016-01-02T00:55:17","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T05:55:17","slug":"ten-years-and-3500-photos-later-still-playing-all-the-angles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=4895","title":{"rendered":"TEN YEARS and 3,500 photos later, still playing all the angles"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"capitol_2006\"<\/a>This is the photo that started it all on January 1st, 2006.\u00a0 Ten years ago.\u00a0 Wow.\u00a0 A lot has changed since then. Not only am I much more occupied with work, freelance work, and being a husband and Daddy, but I’ve also had to ride out some major health issues and lots <\/em>of moving: moving my family into a new house, moving my studio\/office at work, and moving my church.\u00a0 So I don’t post daily anymore, but I do share what I can.\u00a0 I keep thinking that soon enough I will be able to get out with my cameras more.\u00a0 Meanwhile, I took some time to chase down even more photos like the one above:<\/p>\n

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\"2016_capitol_36268-70_hdr\"<\/a>This angle looks so straightforward, doesn’t it?\u00a0 The fact is, I only recently discovered it.\u00a0 This is actually taken from down Sixth Street a little ways.\u00a0 That’s the best way to get the NORTH DAKOTA CAPITOL sign in the shot without having it dominate the photo.\u00a0 Getting farther away gets a perspective that matches it in size with the pioneer statue, and allows both of them to grow in relation to the capitol tower.\u00a0 It’s a fun shot to get, but not when there’s a lot of traffic whizzing across the frame on Boulevard Avenue.<\/p>\n

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\"_MG_36217\"<\/a>Here’s what I’m talking about.\u00a0 If you just go to the bottom of the mall and take a photo from the road, this what you get.\u00a0 The capitol sign is large, the tower is small, and the pioneer statue is all but indistinguishable.\u00a0 I don’t know why I didn’t think to venture farther away and set up my shot down 6th Street before this, but I’m thankful for this year’s epiphany.<\/p>\n

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\"2016_capitol_36191-3_hdr\"<\/a>The parking lots on the north side of the capitol were redone a year or two ago, and that opened up this shot from the backside of the legislative wing.\u00a0 Previously this angle was obscured by trees, and I’m sure it will be once again someday as newly planted ones grow to adult heights, but for now I have a brand new perspective on the capitol that was not possible when I first started doing this bloggin’ thang.<\/p>\n

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\"2016_capitol_36308-10_hdr\"<\/a>This year I had a clear sky at sunset and decided to try something a little different.\u00a0 I’ve had a blast taking shots of the entire capitol complex from the northeast hill and posting it as my blog’s Facebook cover photo.\u00a0 That’s fine, since it’s such a wide angle shot that it crops very nicely into the 851×315 dimensions required by Facebook.\u00a0 But what about a traditionally framed shot?\u00a0 Well, rather than worry about the DOT \/ Heritage Center buildings I opted this time to pan west toward the sunset and include only the judicial and legislative wings of the capitol along with the tower.\u00a0 It worked great with the peachy sunset colors, too.<\/p>\n

Well, here’s to another ten years!\u00a0 It looks like I’ve posted in the neighborhood of 3,500 photos so far.\u00a0 I sure hope I have plenty more photos and musings to share!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the photo that started it all on January 1st, 2006.\u00a0 Ten years ago.\u00a0 Wow.\u00a0 A lot has changed since then. Not only am I much more occupied with work, freelance work, and being a husband and Daddy, but … Continue reading →<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-bismarck-mandan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895","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=4895"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4898,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895\/revisions\/4898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}