{"id":295,"date":"2008-05-09T00:50:14","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T06:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=295"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:03:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:03:43","slug":"skywatch-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2008\/05\/skywatch-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Skywatch Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tsannie (commenter annbb) of <a target=\"The Tombstone Chronicler\" href=\"http:\/\/thetombstonechronicler.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"The Tombstone Chronicler\" rel=\"noopener\">The Tombstone Chronicler<\/a> invited me to join <a target=\"Skywatch Friday\" href=\"http:\/\/womtig.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/sky-watch_08.html\" title=\"Skywatch\" rel=\"noopener\">Skywatch Friday<\/a> which is hosted by Tom Wigley on his blog <a target=\"Wiggers World\" href=\"http:\/\/womtig.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Wiggers World\" rel=\"noopener\">Wiggers World<\/a><\/p>\n<p>***edit 5\/9 7:45 a.m. Mountain Daylight Time:  I&#8217;m not sure of the &#8220;rules&#8221; or more gently, the &#8220;customs&#8221; for Sky Watch Friday.  Thought I should disclose that these are not SOOC.  I use Photoshop and\/or Lightroom to boost color, correct white balance and\/or exposure, etc.  I have learned a lot about my camera settings from using the software and vice versa and sometimes I love the SOOC shot and leave it alone, but I also love playing for effect.<\/p>\n<p>My skywatch Friday photo has been in my photostream on the right of the blog but never part of a blog entry.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/May08\/SkyWatchFriday500395.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Sunset\" height=\"375\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 395px\" title=\"Sunset\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Taken on April 9, 2008 just south of Tontogany, Ohio &#8211; rural Bowling Green.  Sunset.  I boosted color and contrast with Lightroom.<\/p>\n<p>And an extra &#8211; taken last night on the evening walk by my home &#8211; Snow squall in the mountains.  Just north of Bigfork, Montana.<br \/>\nMe and my Karelian Bear Dog, Karl &#8211; camera on a nearby stump&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/May08\/EveningAnnKarl500457.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"SnowSky\" height=\"457\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 457px\" title=\"SnowSky\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Contrast and color boost with Photoshop CS3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tsannie (commenter annbb) of The Tombstone Chronicler invited me to join Skywatch Friday which is hosted by Tom Wigley on his blog Wiggers World ***edit 5\/9 7:45 a.m. Mountain Daylight Time: I&#8217;m not sure of the &#8220;rules&#8221; or more gently, the &#8220;customs&#8221; for Sky Watch Friday. Thought I should disclose that these are not SOOC. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","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=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22108,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/22108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}