{"id":35640,"date":"2023-12-31T06:00:27","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=35640"},"modified":"2023-11-12T04:13:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T09:13:29","slug":"tripod-holes-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2023\/12\/tripod-holes-53\/","title":{"rendered":"Tripod holes 53"},"content":{"rendered":"

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N 36\u00b0 3’59.06″ W 75\u00b041’23.29″<\/strong> Google Earth location<\/a><\/p>\n

Another where it doesn’t matter a whole lot where you are, but it represents something that I thought I’d accomplish more often in the intervening years. Bear with me for a second.<\/p>\n

When I determined that I’d have 53 Tripod Holes posts this year and that the last would fall on December 31st, I slotted this image in for it – not because it was taken on that date, far from it, but because I’d taken another<\/em> memorable frame on that date, of my nieces, in the same location, some years later. It’s stupid, I know, but we could also use the reminder of summer right now.<\/p>\n

Best guess is summer of 1994, one of my first weekend trips out to the beach to chase photos – still using an Olympus OM-10 at that time, still using print film. Up well before sunrise to catch it over the ocean, and I chose the beach access that I knew would be almost devoid of (other) tourists at that time, up right alongside the Black Pelican restaurant in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. There was a bit too much haze on the horizon to see the sun break directly over the water, so I watched it start to appear through the haze, and was lined up, camera on tripod, ready to catch a silhouette of one of the many seagulls and pelicans, should one pass directly across the sun. It never happened, but this one was close enough, and happenstance meant that I caught it with its wings on the upstroke, where they look best. I didn’t really know this at the time – I just tripped the shutter as the bird came into position – but on seeing the print later, I was very pleased. It decorated my walls for years, and still remains in the website gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Catching something silhouetted against the sun or the moon is a hell of a lot trickier than you might suspect. Both are terribly small in the sky, so it’s easy for even a flock of birds to pass through the immediate area and never right in front of the sun\/moon. This says nothing, of course, of things like planes or the ISS or something like that. I did eventually get a couple of silhouettes<\/a> of that nature<\/a>, but not what I was trying for here, nearly thirty years ago. Maybe this coming year is the one…<\/p>\n

Happy New Year, everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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