{"id":776,"date":"2013-03-16T17:52:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T01:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/?p=776"},"modified":"2013-03-16T18:01:46","modified_gmt":"2013-03-17T02:01:46","slug":"experimenting-at-the-open-north-american-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/2013\/03\/16\/experimenting-at-the-open-north-american-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Experimenting at the Open North American Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AK-FAI-ONAC-103163-84.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-780 aligncenter\" title=\"AK-FAI-ONAC-103163-84\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AK-FAI-ONAC-103163-84.jpg?resize=533%2C800\" alt=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AK-FAI-ONAC-103163-84.jpg?w=533&amp;ssl=1 533w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AK-FAI-ONAC-103163-84.jpg?resize=199%2C300&amp;ssl=1 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Under bright blue skies and intense sun, huge mushing teams took to the trails around Fairbanks this afternoon. I headed to Creamer&#8217;s Field where I could position myself to watch the teams race by on their way out, and then again as they headed back in toward the finish. I tried for variety, telephotos and wide-angles, backlit and front-lit, cropped and uncropped&#8230; After my first glance and early post-processing, these are my favorite. Thoughts?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AK-FAI-ONAC-103163-87.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-781\" title=\"AK-FAI-ONAC-103163-87\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AK-FAI-ONAC-103163-87.jpg?resize=700%2C239\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AK-FAI-ONAC-103163-87.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AK-FAI-ONAC-103163-87.jpg?resize=300%2C102&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AK-FAI-ONAC-103163-87.jpg?resize=500%2C170&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AK-FAI-ONAC-103163-44.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-779\" title=\"AK-FAI-ONAC-103163-44\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AK-FAI-ONAC-103163-44.jpg?resize=700%2C297\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AK-FAI-ONAC-103163-44.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AK-FAI-ONAC-103163-44.jpg?resize=300%2C127&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AK-FAI-ONAC-103163-44.jpg?resize=500%2C211&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AK-FAI-ONAC-103163-21.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-778\" title=\"AK-FAI-ONAC-103163-21\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AK-FAI-ONAC-103163-21.jpg?resize=700%2C287\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AK-FAI-ONAC-103163-21.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AK-FAI-ONAC-103163-21.jpg?resize=300%2C123&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AK-FAI-ONAC-103163-21.jpg?resize=500%2C205&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AK-FAI-ONAC-103163-6.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-777\" title=\"AK-FAI-ONAC-103163-6\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AK-FAI-ONAC-103163-6.jpg?resize=700%2C466\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AK-FAI-ONAC-103163-6.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AK-FAI-ONAC-103163-6.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AK-FAI-ONAC-103163-6.jpg?resize=450%2C300&amp;ssl=1 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under bright blue skies and intense sun, huge mushing teams took to the trails around Fairbanks this afternoon. I headed to Creamer&#8217;s Field where I could position myself to watch the teams race by on their way out, and then&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,21,11,147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creativity","category-images","category-recreation","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AK-FAI-ONAC-103163-84.jpg?fit=533%2C800&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8wo3z-cw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions\/784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}