{"id":20902,"date":"2017-08-27T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-27T10:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=20902"},"modified":"2017-08-27T02:36:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-27T06:36:51","slug":"daily-jim-pic-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2017\/08\/daily-jim-pic-38\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Jim pic 38"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_1968.jpg\" alt=\"rock spires in Custer State Park by James L. Kramer\" width=\"730\" height=\"487\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20903\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>I think we&#8217;re still in Custer State Park, and I&#8217;m not going guess at the process that formed these distinct rock towers &#8211; oh, hell, yes I am. It&#8217;s likely layers of a harder stone, formerly sedimentary, that got uplifted by geologic folding and then weathered away. But that&#8217;s not important (sorry geologists.) More useful to us &#8211; since you&#8217;re on a nature photography site &#8211; is the way the light works. Textures like these beg for sharp and distinct sidelighting, which emphasizes their coarse nature. Direct light, such as immediately behind the camera, wouldn&#8217;t make these half as forbidding. High contrast light can have a negative effect on many kinds of photos, but it&#8217;s situations like this where it works very well, throwing all of those edges into sharp relief. And the framing with the tree layers really kicks it, too, providing a lot of depth to the scene while mimicking the rock formations. I like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think we&#8217;re still in Custer State Park, and I&#8217;m not going guess at the process that formed these distinct rock towers &#8211; oh, hell, yes I am. It&#8217;s likely layers of a harder stone, formerly sedimentary, that got uplifted by geologic folding and then weathered away. But that&#8217;s not important (sorry geologists.) More useful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[1981,4033,1257,4042],"class_list":["post-20902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-contrast","tag-custer-state-park","tag-james-l-kramer","tag-rock-spires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}