{"id":702,"date":"2009-10-13T04:19:21","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T10:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp\/?p=702"},"modified":"2009-10-13T04:19:21","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T10:19:21","slug":"were-beaten-and-blown-by-the-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/were-beaten-and-blown-by-the-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re beaten and blown by the wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sidehike\/4007334033\/\" title=\"We're beaten and blown by the wind by sidehike, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2461\/4007334033_f5b2eae2dc_b.jpg\" width=\"688\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"We're beaten and blown by the wind\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think the happiest moment for a photographer is the moment they KNOW they got the shot that they imagined before they hit the shutter &#8230; when the creative and the actual snap together and become one. <\/p>\n<p>This composition has been rattling around in my head since I first saw the arched bridges in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.77prints.com\/?p=258\">photos a friend took at the Chicago show<\/a>. The way the lean in The Edge&#8217;s legs line up with the curve in the railing, the way the body kicks back almost perpendicular to the arc, the highlights from the spotlight &#8230; I will swear to the <em>deity of your choice<\/em> that this is <em>exactly<\/em> what I wanted. <\/p>\n<p>(OK, the green hue in the background &#8230; I&#8217;ll credit THAT to serendipity.)<\/p>\n<p>This was one of those perfect moments as a photographer. Everything went into slow motion as the camera locked focus and my trigger finger mashed the shutter button. BAM. Before it came up on the viewfinder I knew I had it.<\/p>\n<p>When I pulled the images up on my computer I didn&#8217;t even want to bother processing or uploading any of the other photos. I feel almost like they detract from this one. (But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sidehike\/sets\/72157622575728284\/\">here they are<\/a> anyway.)<\/p>\n<p>And sweet merciful crap what a stellar show it was &#8230; and please play the acoustic version of <em>Stuck in a Moment You Can&#8217;t Get Out Of<\/em> at my funeral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think the happiest moment for a photographer is the moment they KNOW they got the shot that they imagined before they hit the shutter &#8230; when the creative and the actual snap together and become one. This composition has been rattling around in my head since I first saw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sidehike.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}