{"id":5670,"date":"2017-09-03T21:49:06","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T02:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=5670"},"modified":"2017-09-04T21:51:55","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T02:51:55","slug":"heat-haze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=5670","title":{"rendered":"Heat haze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2017\/09\/fallen_farm_51411-3_hdr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5668\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2017\/09\/fallen_farm_51411-3_hdr-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2017\/09\/fallen_farm_51411-3_hdr.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2017\/09\/fallen_farm_51411-3_hdr-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2017\/09\/fallen_farm_51411-3_hdr-452x300.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>Here are a couple more shots from Friday, when I didn&#8217;t let the haze of smoke from fires in Montana, Canada, et cetera get in the way of a great photo day.\u00a0 I&#8217;m actually starting to like the drab background it provides, without any cloud distractions and the change to the color cast of the light in the foreground.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2017\/09\/slanted_door_51393-5_hdr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5669\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2017\/09\/slanted_door_51393-5_hdr-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2017\/09\/slanted_door_51393-5_hdr.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2017\/09\/slanted_door_51393-5_hdr-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2017\/09\/slanted_door_51393-5_hdr-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>Take this shot, for example.\u00a0 I was going to post it later on its own with something about &#8220;leaning&#8221; in the title, but it is actually a great example of the diffused light provided by the haze.\u00a0 And, just like a previous photo, the color of the otherwise drab building stands out against the gray background better than a brilliant September blue.<\/p>\n<p>More to come!\u00a0 I went out thinking the light was giong to kill any chance of good photos but came home with a whole pack of candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah&#8230;the post title comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1M8G3FWM3Wo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this dreamy song by Walls<\/a>&#8230; a wonderful little instrumental track just perfect for roaming the North Dakota countryside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a couple more shots from Friday, when I didn&#8217;t let the haze of smoke from fires in Montana, Canada, et cetera get in the way of a great photo day.\u00a0 I&#8217;m actually starting to like the drab background &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=5670\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5668,"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":[4,11,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-bismarck-mandan","category-fallen-farms","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670","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=5670"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5673,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670\/revisions\/5673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}