{"id":1435,"date":"2009-01-15T09:45:05","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T16:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:07:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:07:58","slug":"adventures-with-the-tripod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2009\/01\/adventures-with-the-tripod\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventures with the tripod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jan09\/TripodAnnStart500348.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"348\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 348px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The day needed a bit of adventure and some color.  I set off in my brightest jacket and scarf, on snowshoes, with Karl, camera and tripod, intending to get a photo of Karl and I with the mountains in the background&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jan09\/TripodCollage640100.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"100\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 1000px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When I trained Karl, I taught hand signals as well as voice commands. Those last 2 photos &#8211; crouched down and arms to the side is the &#8220;Come&#8221; signal for Karl.  Usually he comes running&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The tripod was apparently off-putting.  He has figured out that it means he has to do something and do it for a long time, while I run back and forth like a crazy person.  He opted out of participating this day.<\/p>\n<p>So, it is me with the mountains in the background.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jan09\/TripodAnnClose600426.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"426\" style=\"width: 600px; height: 426px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Jan09\/TripodKarl550418.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"418\" style=\"width: 550px; height: 418px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Karl waited patiently out of the fray.  As soon as I put the tripod away, he trotted over to the photo venue all waggy-tail.  I don&#8217;t know where he gets the &#8220;I&#8217;m just going to do what I want to do and that&#8217;s it&#8221; behavior&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day needed a bit of adventure and some color. I set off in my brightest jacket and scarf, on snowshoes, with Karl, camera and tripod, intending to get a photo of Karl and I with the mountains in the background&#8230; When I trained Karl, I taught hand signals as well as voice commands. Those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-montana","category-pets","category-photos"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22217,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions\/22217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}