{"id":384,"date":"2009-02-21T15:57:32","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T00:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/?p=384"},"modified":"2012-12-15T04:13:47","modified_gmt":"2012-12-15T13:13:47","slug":"tight-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/?p=384","title":{"rendered":"Tight Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_381\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/scan001058.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-381\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-381\" title=\"scan001058\" src=\"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/scan001058-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Sputnik on a tripod - Provia 100F\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/scan001058-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/scan001058-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/scan001058.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-381\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sputnik on a tripod - Provia 100F<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Steamship Wharf in downtown Juneau has sufficient capacity to moor three cruise ships.\u00a0 When the dock is full, others must anchor in the channel and lighter their passengers in. When the ships are able to tie up, they tower over the library (which is immediately adjacent to the wharf); these are <em>big<\/em>.\u00a0 Depending on the ship, they may use six, seven or eight hawsers to secure themselves to the dock.\u00a0 Each of these lines is continually monitored by the ship-board watch and let out or tightened to accommodate the motion of the boat and the tide.<\/p>\n<p>I really like the way the lines radiate out to the ship and disappear into the hull openings.\u00a0 For a couple of years I was able to make these images and I was starting to figure out what it would take to get everything in focus <em>and<\/em> have a good composition.\u00a0 Then &#8220;they&#8221; rammed a couple of planes into a pair of skyscrapers on the other side of the globe and the Department of Homeland Hysterics took over our docks.\u00a0 The consequence is that I can no longer get close enough to the lines to again attempt this image.\u00a0 Yes, the foreground is soft, but that&#8217;s the way it&#8217;s gonna be \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>Tripod mounted Sputnik, Provia 100F<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Steamship Wharf in downtown Juneau has sufficient capacity to moor three cruise ships.\u00a0 When the dock is full, others must anchor in the channel and lighter their passengers in. When the ships are able to tie up, they tower over the library (which is immediately adjacent to the wharf); these are big.\u00a0 Depending on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8,12],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a21","tag-john-thurston","tag-sputnik"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2630,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions\/2630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}