{"id":3332,"date":"2018-05-31T11:25:15","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T18:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/?p=3332"},"modified":"2018-05-31T11:25:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T18:25:15","slug":"potm-may-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/potm-may-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"POTM &#8211; May, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a tough time choosing my photo of the month this time. I went on a <a href=\"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/end-of-my-week-long-vacation\/\">vacation in Tofino<\/a> and took a lot of photos. This was taken at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tofinohiking.com\/hikes\/bog-trail\/\">Bog Trail<\/a>, and I think represents the trail quite well. It has a bit of a &#8220;spooky&#8221; feel.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3333\" src=\"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/alanklughammer.com_.AlanKlughammer.com_20180516-AK5_2916-267x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The composition was very straightforward. I pictured the dead tree as a kind of skeletal spine, so it had to be dead centre. I chose my angle of view to minimize background distractions and yet unbalance the bush behind the tree.This gave a bit more tension to the image. I processed the image to a high contrast B&amp;W to further emphasize the starkness of the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a tough time choosing my photo of the month this time. I went on a vacation in Tofino and took a lot of photos. This was taken at Bog Trail, and I think represents the trail quite well. It has a bit of a &#8220;spooky&#8221; feel. The composition was very straightforward. I pictured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,7,89],"tags":[49,46,32,47,90],"class_list":["post-3332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-photography","category-potm","tag-art-2","tag-landscapes","tag-tips-techniques-and-thoughts-on-photography","tag-photos","tag-potm","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}