{"id":29102,"date":"2021-05-29T10:49:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T14:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=29102"},"modified":"2021-05-29T10:49:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T14:49:03","slug":"still-at-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2021\/05\/still-at-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Still at it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/SomeOrangePromise.jpg\" alt=\"red sky before sunrise on North Topsail Beach, NC\" width=\"750\" height=\"483\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29103\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>It&#8217;s another attempt to get that elusive green flash on video, doing it at sunrise because sunset wouldn&#8217;t provide the view needed. The bad weather had cleared, but the temperature hadn&#8217;t risen yet, and it was far from comfortable on the beach<strong>;<\/strong> this just goes to show how dedicated and hardcore I am.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, there&#8217;s a balance point when placing the tripod, because you want stable sand, which is generally the wet stuff near the point where the waves have come in, but you don&#8217;t want to be <em>in<\/em> the water at any point. Since it was nearing high tide, there also wasn&#8217;t a lot of beach to work with, and only a couple of meters away was the &#8216;cliff edge&#8217; of the dune, the eroded high water mark in the sand not far from the steps down off of the primary dune<strong>;<\/strong> the moon was almost new, close to the sun, so their combined gravity was created the highest tides. It had an effect, as you&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/556499994\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Immediately after the video, I did just a handful of photos on the beach to take advantage of conditions.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/HardOnTheHooves.jpg\" alt=\"debris linet at high tide with lots of shells and stones on the waterline\" width=\"750\" height=\"1125\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29104\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>This is the debris that you heard in the video, directly underfoot and a bit hard on the soles. While I&#8217;m in water sandals all summer long, they&#8217;ll get completely filled with sand in the softer area between the primary dune and the wet sand near the waterline, so I generally take them off before hitting the beach and hang them from my belt with a carabiner, only re-donning them after hitting the courtesy footwash on the opposite side of the dune (which I also use on the tripod legs.)<\/p>\n<p>I went a bit lower too.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ChimpLevel.jpg\" alt=\"very low angle on beach debris and foam against rising sun\" width=\"750\" height=\"1161\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29106\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>Buggato would have been sorry to miss this, because I didn&#8217;t sprawl on the beach to get this frame, but simply held the camera down near my ankles and fired off some shots blind<strong>;<\/strong> this required &#8216;chimping,&#8217; examining the LCD afterwards to see what I got, only necessary because I couldn&#8217;t use the viewfinder in the first place (thus, one of the few legitimate reasons to do so.) Try as he might, he <em>still<\/em> hasn&#8217;t caught me doing this, simply because I rarely ever do it. Ah well.<\/p>\n<p>I got another frame that I like even more &#8211; that&#8217;ll be along soon. We&#8217;re <em>almost<\/em> done with the beach trip now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another attempt to get that elusive green flash on video, doing it at sunrise because sunset wouldn&#8217;t provide the view needed. The bad weather had cleared, but the temperature hadn&#8217;t risen yet, and it was far from comfortable on the beach; this just goes to show how dedicated and hardcore I am. By the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,3809],"tags":[6208,3853,6207,4305,349,3852],"class_list":["post-29102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","category-video","tag-audio-could-be-better","tag-north-topsail-beach","tag-selfless-dedication","tag-shells","tag-sunrise","tag-topsail-island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29102","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=29102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}