{"id":931,"date":"2013-09-10T14:53:20","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T22:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/?p=931"},"modified":"2013-09-18T13:19:29","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T21:19:29","slug":"incoming-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/2013\/09\/10\/incoming-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Incoming Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AK-ANWR-Kongakut-WhaleMtn-1063-274.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-932\" title=\"AK-ANWR-Kongakut-WhaleMtn-1063-274\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AK-ANWR-Kongakut-WhaleMtn-1063-274.jpg?resize=667%2C1000\" alt=\"\" width=\"667\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AK-ANWR-Kongakut-WhaleMtn-1063-274.jpg?w=667&amp;ssl=1 667w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AK-ANWR-Kongakut-WhaleMtn-1063-274.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Sun halo and the Kongakut River in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska. Canon 5D Mark III, 24-105L f4 IS, ISO 50, 24mm, f9.0, 1\/500th sec. I purposely underexposed this image by several stops to blacken the mountains and increase the contrast in sky.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a weather-watcher when I&#8217;m in the backcountry. I have a watch that tracks the barometric pressure, and I eye the sky compulsively. After several years of watching, monitoring, and worrying, I&#8217;ve gotten a bit better at making short-term forecasts. Which is to say, I still suck at it, but I&#8217;m right more often than I once was. A plummeting barometer, high cirrus clouds, or as is the case in this image, a halo around the sun, are warning signs, and I dread seeing them when I&#8217;m guiding a trip.<\/p>\n<p>The photographer in me has a different perspective. Changing weather can be magical for photography. Clouds rolling in create drama, and\u00a0<a title=\"Wild Places: Storm over the Kokolik River, Alaska\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/2013\/09\/06\/wild-places-storm-over-the-kokolik-river-alaska\/\">storms<\/a>\u00a0can be amazing.<\/p>\n<p>When I see change on the way, I batten down the tents, put on my rain gear, and head back outside. Bad weather can yield the best photographs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sun halo and the Kongakut River in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska. Canon 5D Mark III, 24-105L f4 IS, ISO 50, 24mm, f9.0, 1\/500th sec. I purposely underexposed this image by several stops to blacken the mountains and increase&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":932,"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":[15,14,19],"tags":[29,42,43,45,41,44],"class_list":["post-931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arctic","category-landscape","category-tips","tag-alaska","tag-anwr","tag-arctic-refuge","tag-forecast","tag-kongakut","tag-weather"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AK-ANWR-Kongakut-WhaleMtn-1063-274.jpg?fit=667%2C1000&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8wo3z-f1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931","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=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":935,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions\/935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildimagephoto.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}