{"id":12101,"date":"2016-10-21T07:36:42","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T12:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=12101"},"modified":"2016-10-21T07:36:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T12:36:42","slug":"photos-of-the-day-perfect-autumn-morning-in-downtown-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2016\/10\/21\/photos-of-the-day-perfect-autumn-morning-in-downtown-ottawa\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos of the day: Perfect autumn morning in downtown Ottawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">I<\/span> don&#8217;t miss the commute home from working downtown, but this season especially I have really missed poking around on my lunch breaks with my camera. When I was invited to attend a conference at the National Gallery this week, I set my alarm to arrive extra early and give myself some time to creep around and enjoy some autumnal colour in one of my favourite places.<\/p>\n<p>It was worth the lost sleep, wouldn&#8217;t you say?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/29821799093\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Ottawa photographer Danielle Donders takes family portraits and photos of local landmarks and events\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c6.staticflickr.com\/6\/5518\/29821799093_58e692b5aa_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Parliament Hill in Ottawa on an autumn morning\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apparently my theme of the day was framing things through tunnels of colourful leaves.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/30454520335\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Ottawa photographer Danielle Donders takes family portraits and photos of local landmarks and events\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c8.staticflickr.com\/6\/5764\/30454520335_5d92c33006_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Photograph of Parliament Hill in Ottawa on an autumn morning\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seriously, though, those colours!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/29821797933\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Ottawa photographer Danielle Donders takes family portraits and photos of local landmarks and events\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c6.staticflickr.com\/9\/8598\/29821797933_ec390eed3d_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"428\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Photograph of Parliament Hill in Ottawa on an autumn morning\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hiked my way up to Nepean Point not once but twice, but didn&#8217;t love the fall colour as much as I did when I was in Majors Hill Park, probably because the sun was rising opposite me and the colours weren&#8217;t as vibrant when they were backlit, to say nothing of all the fences and cranes from the Canada 150 upgrades. But I did love stumbling onto this photo of the intrepid shadow girl engaged in her ongoing pursuit of the perfect shot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/30337464532\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"The intrepid shadow photographer hunts autumn colours!\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c5.staticflickr.com\/6\/5810\/30337464532_efd2d064b0_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" alt=\"The intrepid shadow photographer hunts autumn colours!\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We live in an amazingly beautiful city made even more breath-taking by the palette of autumn colours but&#8230; don&#8217;t blink or it will suddenly be winter. Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t miss the commute home from working downtown, but this season especially I have really missed poking around on my lunch breaks with my camera. When I was invited to attend a conference at the National Gallery this week, I set my alarm to arrive extra early and give myself some time to creep &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2016\/10\/21\/photos-of-the-day-perfect-autumn-morning-in-downtown-ottawa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Photos of the day: Perfect autumn morning in downtown Ottawa&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-ottawa","category-project-365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12102,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12101\/revisions\/12102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}