{"id":5144,"date":"2011-07-15T12:11:56","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T21:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/?p=5144"},"modified":"2011-07-15T12:17:35","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T21:17:35","slug":"featured-image-relaxing-alaska-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/featured-image-relaxing-alaska-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Image: Relaxing, Alaska Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5145\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5145\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSC6236.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5145 \" title=\"_DSC6236\" src=\"http:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSC6236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSC6236.jpg 700w, https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSC6236-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSC6236-600x399.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5145\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picnic with the Cessna 120, Knik River gravel bar, Alaska<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had N3102N for almost a couple of months now and I&#8217;ve been having lots of fun exploring the backcountry around Anchorage and the Mat-Su area. I look forward to taking some longer trip with the little Cessna as soon as I get all the new airplane bugs worked out.<\/p>\n<p>Although it&#8217;s not very fast, it doesn&#8217;t have big tires and it&#8217;s only got 85 horses under the hood, it&#8217;s still capable of taking me to some pretty fun places without burning too much gas. It&#8217;s the the adventure photographer&#8217;s dream. Oh, the places I&#8217;ll go!!<\/p>\n<p>This photo was taken during our July 4th picnic on the Knik River gravel bar. Independence indeed! Shot with the Nikon D700 and AF 80-200mm f\/2.8 lens, zoomed to 110mm, 1\/1250 sec at f\/3.5. There&#8217;s a little bit of diffused sunlight on the plane, but what makes the two main subjects stand out so much is the fact that I&#8217;m shooting towards a rain squall off in the distance, which helps soften the background and bring the eyes forward.<\/p>\n<p>That and the fact that the airplane is bright freaking yellow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had N3102N for almost a couple of months now and I&#8217;ve been having lots of fun exploring the backcountry around Anchorage and the Mat-Su area. I look forward to taking some longer trip with the little Cessna as soon as I get all the new airplane bugs worked out. Although it&#8217;s not very fast, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13,10,317,14,15,124,145,318,112,20,89,149],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}