{"id":12434,"date":"2017-10-25T08:36:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T13:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=12434"},"modified":"2017-10-25T08:37:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T13:37:25","slug":"photos-of-the-day-autumn-colours-at-hogsback-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2017\/10\/25\/photos-of-the-day-autumn-colours-at-hogsback-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos of the day: Autumn colours at Hogsback Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">I<\/span> think the paths along Hogsback Falls in Ottawa are truly one of the city&#8217;s overlooked treasures. I see photographers crawling all over the Arboretum but am surprised that I rarely see family photos being taken at Hogsback &#8211; there&#8217;s a stunning variety of backdrops and perfect places for posing and playing. It&#8217;s been a few too many years since we&#8217;ve been there, though I drive past it on my commute every single day and think about stopping.  We took advantage of the incredible weekend weather to go out for a wander.<\/p>\n<p>Taking photos of the boys is more of an adventure than it used to be. I told them to &#8220;go over there so I can take your picture.&#8221; The posing and art direction was left up to them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/24073240618\/\" title=\"Autumn at Hogsback Falls\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4502\/24073240618_138bf7929f_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"fun family photos in Ottawa\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I call it &#8220;Album Cover, Autumn 2017 edition.&#8221; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>I think this would be an acceptable alternate cover.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/37214605004\/\" title=\"fun family photos in Ottawa\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4468\/37214605004_14db09f7d7_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Autumn at Hogsback Falls\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of them are more willing to pose for me than others. It depends on the day which kid is in which category!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/37214604424\/\" title=\"fun family photos in Ottawa\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4481\/37214604424_2f1513471a_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Autumn at Hogsback Falls\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Oh my heart!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/26148288559\/\" title=\"Autumn at Hogsback Falls\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4445\/26148288559_e92971c766_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"428\" height=\"640\" alt=\"fun family photos in Ottawa\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/autumn-wander-at-hogsback-simon.jpg\" alt=\"autumn wander at hogsback simon\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" class=\"frame aligncenter size-full wp-image-12435\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Yes, that&#8217;s my camera. Good thing I carry a spare in my pocket!)<\/p>\n<p>Did I mention it&#8217;s been a FEW years since we were up on the lookout? <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/2938223364\/in\/album-72157607985092676\/\" title=\"DSC_2458\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3227\/2938223364_ed284f6bd3_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" alt=\"fun family photos in Ottawa\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have a few favourite spots we go to year after year. I&#8217;m making sure that Hogsback Falls is put back into rotation from now on!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think the paths along Hogsback Falls in Ottawa are truly one of the city&#8217;s overlooked treasures. I see photographers crawling all over the Arboretum but am surprised that I rarely see family photos being taken at Hogsback &#8211; there&#8217;s a stunning variety of backdrops and perfect places for posing and playing. It&#8217;s been a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2017\/10\/25\/photos-of-the-day-autumn-colours-at-hogsback-falls\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Photos of the day: Autumn colours at Hogsback Falls&#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":[11,97,33,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ah-me-boys","category-mothership-photography","category-ottawas-hidden-treasures","category-project-365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12434","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=12434"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12439,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12434\/revisions\/12439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}