{"id":1003,"date":"2012-06-05T19:19:54","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T01:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsrider.com\/blog\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2025-03-12T07:05:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T07:05:01","slug":"photos-of-the-day-tuesday-june-5-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/2012\/06\/05\/photos-of-the-day-tuesday-june-5-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos of the day, Tuesday June 5, 2012 – Venus Traverse"},"content":{"rendered":"

And I hate to say here we go again – but for a guy who is known for photos of wildflowers and lightning, this series of solar and lunar events may seem a bit out of character. \u00a0But, hey, you take what you get when you can get it.<\/p>\n

First photo of the evening – I’ve got about another hour before the sun sets, and just before sunset is the best chance of viewing the \u00a0Venus traverse.<\/p>\n

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Looks like I’m having a bit more success, able to sharpen the image with the filter of positive film over the lens.<\/p>\n

Larger image here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As the sun sets, it should get easier, and I’ll remove the polarizing filter and stop using the film to cover the lens.<\/p>\n

Sun went behind a cloud for a couple of minutes giving me this shot next.<\/p>\n

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Venus and the sun set over Albuquerque.<\/p>\n

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Larger image here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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And I hate to say here we go again – but for a guy who is known for photos of wildflowers and lightning, this series of solar and lunar events may seem a bit out of character. \u00a0But, hey, you take what you get when you can get it. First photo of the evening – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[198,199,200,201],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-mexico-sky","tag-venus-sunset-over-albuquerque","tag-venus-traverse","tag-venus-traverse-albuquerque","tag-venus-traverse-sunset-albuquerque"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2450,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions\/2450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}