{"id":567,"date":"2009-07-31T19:03:29","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T04:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/?p=567"},"modified":"2009-08-30T20:45:20","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T05:45:20","slug":"canyon-x-colors-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/?p=567","title":{"rendered":"Canyon X Colors #34"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_578\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-578\" class=\"size-full wp-image-578\" src=\"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/canyon_x_colors_34_200x243.jpg\" alt=\"Reflected, unfiltered light in Canyon X\" width=\"200\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/canyon_x_colors_34_200x243.jpg 200w, https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/canyon_x_colors_34_200x243-123x150.jpg 123w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-578\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reflected, unfiltered light in Canyon X<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last year I was on a break between contracts, and Mandy saw a window of opportunity to sneak off for a vacation. Picking the southwest US was easy. She had only 2 weeks available, but I was free as a bird, so I offered to drive down to Page Arizona a week early. That gave me a few days to spend with a photo guide, Mandy flew down to meet me, and we took it from there. I&#8217;ve seen shots of Antelope Canyon for years, but I had no idea what a tourist trap the place has become. When I went to Antelope, which is a fairly short Canyon, there were 200 other photographers crammed into this tiny space elbow to elbow.<br \/>\nI also went to Canyon X, which only one tour company has the rights to visit, and it was a completely different scene. Unfortunately, most of the day at Canyon X we were getting filtered light, but there were some lucky breaks, like this one. It&#8217;s all reflected light bouncing around. There&#8217;s no surface in this shot getting direct sunlight. I metered off the highlights.<\/p>\n<p>I think this makes a nice complement to John&#8217;s ice cave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I was on a break between contracts, and Mandy saw a window of opportunity to sneak off for a vacation. Picking the southwest US was easy. She had only 2 weeks available, but I was free as a bird, so I offered to drive down to Page Arizona a week early. That gave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,76],"tags":[96,23,22,21,30,95,97,19,94],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a22","category-folioa","tag-arizona","tag-bob-venezia","tag-existing-light","tag-long-exposure","tag-low-light","tag-page","tag-slot-canyon","tag-tl-120","tag-velvia-100"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions\/604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}