{"id":470,"date":"2010-08-24T19:57:33","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T00:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsrider.com\/blog\/?p=470"},"modified":"2025-03-01T23:21:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T23:21:54","slug":"photos-of-the-day-8-23-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/2010\/08\/24\/photos-of-the-day-8-23-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos of the day – 8.23.10"},"content":{"rendered":"

It wasn’t a spectacular storm day, but there are enough images for a posting. \u00a0Most of these are longer distance shots with the storms quite a ways away. \u00a0Today’s track was from the southwest to the northeast so nothing really got that close.<\/p>\n

I’m getting spoiled, unless there is high drama, I’m not inclined to publish.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I do really enjoy trying to get both the sunset and lightning shots into the same images.<\/p>\n

One of the storms did move north of the house and then the strike gave a great highlight to the rainfall. \u00a0This is a very small storm with the rain probably enclosed within less than one square mile.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, the parade on the western horizon marched along.<\/p>\n

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Because of the height of the cloud bases I suspect that the long strike is at least one to one and a half miles long and the others are possibly just as long, but they are obscured by the rain.<\/p>\n

Panorama of the western sky:<\/p>\n

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Larger image here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It wasn’t a spectacular storm day, but there are enough images for a posting. \u00a0Most of these are longer distance shots with the storms quite a ways away. \u00a0Today’s track was from the southwest to the northeast so nothing really got that close. I’m getting spoiled, unless there is high drama, I’m not inclined to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lightning","category-new-mexico-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","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=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2254,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/2254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}