{"id":12182,"date":"2017-01-23T11:46:47","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T16:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=12182"},"modified":"2017-01-23T11:46:47","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T16:46:47","slug":"photos-of-the-day-reflections-of-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2017\/01\/23\/photos-of-the-day-reflections-of-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos of the day: Reflections of Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span> miss not working downtown anymore mostly because I miss creeping around with my camera. I’m sure the two most-photographed buildings in my archives are Watson’s Mill in Manotick and the Parliament Buildings, and I’m not sure which one would come out ahead quantity-wise. So when I had the occasion on Sunday morning to do a little poking around on the grounds of the Museum of History (after being unceremoniously chased off the grounds of the neighbourhing Kruger plant by a guard with a marked disinterest in my artistic pursuits) I was in my happy place.<\/p>\n

There’s nothing I like more than finding a new and interesting way to take a photo of a familiar subject. I’d been looking for reflections of the Parliament Buildings on the melting river ice but they were patchy and didn’t have the effect I wanted. I love this one, though. This is my kind of selfie!<\/p>\n

\"Selfie<\/a><\/p>\n

Beautiful, right?<\/p>\n

\"Parliament<\/a><\/p>\n

The light was flat and grey but that helps emphasize the interesting shapes in the foreground here, I think.<\/p>\n

\"Parliament<\/a><\/p>\n

More shapes – I think this could be better but I can’t quite figure out how. Vexing. I have said many times in my head recently that I am simply not a landscape photographer.<\/p>\n

\"Museum<\/a><\/p>\n

I upgraded to a desktop computer from a laptop recently, and had to upgrade all of my software, too. It was as traumatizing as you might imagine, but jumping from Lightroom 4 to Lightroom CC has opened up a world of neat new features, including dead easy panorama stitching. This is ten or so photos merged together.<\/p>\n

\"Parliament<\/a><\/p>\n

And finally, to wrap everything up, a selfie and the Parliament Buildings reflected in the History Musueum’s windows — as a pano! This is nine images stitched together.<\/p>\n

\"Reflection<\/a><\/p>\n

Like most people, I’ve found the past few days troubling and stressful. Getting out to play with my camera was truly a balm on my soul. I’m so grateful to have this creative outlet, and to live in such a beautiful and photogenic city!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I miss not working downtown anymore mostly because I miss creeping around with my camera. I’m sure the two most-photographed buildings in my archives are Watson’s Mill in Manotick and the Parliament Buildings, and I’m not sure which one would come out ahead quantity-wise. So when I had the occasion on Sunday morning to do … Continue reading “Photos of the day: Reflections of Parliament”<\/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-12182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-ottawa","category-project-365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12182"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12186,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12182\/revisions\/12186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}