{"id":35634,"date":"2023-12-24T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=35634"},"modified":"2023-11-12T03:40:59","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T08:40:59","slug":"tripod-holes-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2023\/12\/tripod-holes-52\/","title":{"rendered":"Tripod holes 52"},"content":{"rendered":"

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N 26\u00b020’19.30″ W 81\u00b048’17.66″<\/strong> Google Earth location<\/a><\/p>\n

This one isn’t so much to show you a great place for photos, though it may work in that regard;<\/strong> most of the appeal is the sky though, which can occur anywhere. More, this was another of those self-challenges that I get up to, seeing if I can pinpoint a location that I visited just once in passing.<\/p>\n

I’m pretty sure that this was on my birthday in 1999, during a tour of Florida while I still lived in NC. The common evening thunderstorm had rolled in while I was eating dinner at a Perkins Restaurant, and initial memory told me that it was in Fort Myers, but as I thought about it I recalled it was in Bonita Springs, the city a little south of Fort Myers where I was staying, because it was much cheaper while still being relatively convenient to Sanibel Island. The rain hammered, the thunder crashed, and I stalled over dinner, not wanting to go out in it, but it soon passed (as it usually does,) and I hopped into the car to head north. Immediately, the sky cleared into a moody collection of scattered clouds lit by the setting sun, and I figured I’d have to do something about it. The city wasn’t a good place, and I was hoping for a nice natural-looking area between Bonita Springs and Fort Myers, when I saw the bridge ahead and a turnoff almost immediately on my right, possibly marked with signs for a boat launch. I swung the car quickly into the parking lot, hopped out at the ramps, and hastily set up some frames.<\/p>\n

I’m still unsure how I feel about this one. I like the colors, and how the cloud line matches the tree line, and even how the gentle ripples accentuate rather than disturb the reflection. But I also feel that it could have been stronger, had more of a focal point of something. No birds saw fit to pass through and give me something to work with, and the light was changing and fading rapidly, so this is what I had to work with. But I have indeed done better, by any objective measure.<\/p>\n

Years (decades, really) later, I endeavored to pin the location down. I knew I was sticking to Rt 41 instead of the faster but far more boring I-75, and I knew the orientation of the river and ramp. It didn’t take long. Moreover, I even located the restaurant, not a kilometer due south at the major crossroads there – it’s now an Aqua Seafood Steaks and Raw Bar, but go into Street View and it’s still a Perkins. And if there remained any doubt in my mind, looking at one of the other frames that I took then settled it just ducky.<\/p>\n

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These were taken only minutes apart, but you can see how the sunlight has left the clouds now. More to the point, that L-shaped fishing dock is more than distinctive enough – with a few measurements and perhaps a little math, I could pin down to within a meter where I was standing on the other, straight dock.<\/p>\n

But I can’t recall what table I was at for dinner. Getting old…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

N 26\u00b020’19.30″ W 81\u00b048’17.66″ Google Earth location This one isn’t so much to show you a great place for photos, though it may work in that regard; most of the appeal is the sky though, which can occur anywhere. More, this was another of those self-challenges that I get up to, seeing if I can […]<\/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":[7430,95,7429,7431,350],"class_list":["post-35634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-bonita-springs","tag-florida","tag-imperial-river","tag-not-even-what-i-ordered","tag-sunset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35634","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=35634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}