{"id":3837,"date":"2015-02-15T04:25:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T13:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/?p=3837"},"modified":"2015-02-16T21:03:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T06:03:17","slug":"tourney-fountain-quebec-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/?p=3837","title":{"rendered":"Tourney Fountain, Quebec City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Tourney-Fountain-Quebec-City.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3838\" src=\"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Tourney-Fountain-Quebec-City.jpg\" alt=\"Tourney Fountain, Quebec City\" width=\"211\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Tourney-Fountain-Quebec-City.jpg 211w, https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Tourney-Fountain-Quebec-City-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Tourney-Foundation-full-view.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3839\" src=\"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Tourney-Foundation-full-view-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Tourney Foundation full view\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Tourney-Foundation-full-view-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Tourney-Foundation-full-view-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Tourney-Foundation-full-view.jpg 346w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>I tried several classically centred shots of the fountain,\u00a0as with the photo on the right, but I was not satisfied. I then decided to emphasize the overlapping jets of water coming from the frogs&#8217; mouths, which I hoped might be more interesting in stereo than the fountain itself. I waited some time to view the scene\u00a0with tourists in the background and without, and decided to take the shot with tourists to give more &#8220;as it is&#8221; context. The Tourney Fountain was a gift of the Simons Family to\u00a0commemorate Quebec City&#8217;s 400th anniversary in 2008, and has become a popular landmark in front of the parliament. The fountain is\u00a0the creation of French sculptor Mathurin Moreau and was \u00a0originally installed in Bordeaux,\u00a0France in 1857.<\/p>\n<p>Original slide on Provia 400X taken with tripod-mounted Heidoscop at 1\/80 second at f25 on August 12, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried several classically centred shots of the fountain,\u00a0as with the photo on the right, but I was not satisfied. I then decided to emphasize the overlapping jets of water coming from the frogs&#8217; mouths, which I hoped might be more interesting in stereo than the fountain itself. I waited some time to view the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[475,76],"tags":[50,9,58],"class_list":["post-3837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a28","category-folioa","tag-heidoscop","tag-paul-shay","tag-provia-400x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3837"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3846,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837\/revisions\/3846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}