{"id":495,"date":"2010-11-17T12:35:52","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T19:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/?p=495"},"modified":"2011-07-15T09:24:30","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T15:24:30","slug":"pics-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/2010\/11\/17\/pics-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinosaur Provincial Park Covered in Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dinosaur Provincial Park is a great place to check out, especially in winter. I went there in the middle of December a couple years ago. After a cold night sleeping in my car, a friendly snowplow driver cleared the way for me. I got there before sunrise and the whole area had just been covered in a fresh dusting of snow the night before. I was the only person there, although there were new cat tracks everywhere. It was a great day! Then on the way home my transmission blew. There&#8217;s always something&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<br \/>\nngg_shortcode_1_placeholder<\/p>\n<p>Normally I&#8217;m not a fan of weird crops and panos. Too often the composition becomes more about the crop than the contents interacting with the frame. Sometimes it&#8217;s just that too wide of a lens was used and a boring foreground and sky have to be cropped out. But every once in a while an image benefits from a different crop.<br \/>\nngg_shortcode_2_placeholder<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, this is supposed to be <strong>pic<\/strong> of the day, but sometimes I just can&#8217;t resist the allure of multiple pictures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dinosaur Provincial Park is a great place to check out, especially in winter. I went there in the middle of December a couple years ago. After a cold night sleeping in my car, a friendly snowplow driver cleared the way for me. I got there before sunrise and the whole area had just been covered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[731,732,87,740],"tags":[1307,1298,1297,23,1305,1299,69,1296,1301,1302,1306,1295,1303,1294,64,1304,699,1300,338],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-badlands-2","category-landscape-2","category-photo-of-the-day","category-winter-2","tag-alone","tag-boring-foreground","tag-cold-night","tag-composition","tag-cropped","tag-different-crop","tag-dinosaur-provincial-park","tag-dusting-of-snow","tag-earth-science","tag-fresh-dusting","tag-fresh-snow","tag-friendly-snowplow-driver","tag-new-cat","tag-sleeping-in-my-car","tag-snow","tag-snowplow","tag-sunrise","tag-way-home","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1496,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/1496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}