{"id":1837,"date":"2018-11-26T23:54:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1837-capturing-the-wonderful.html"},"modified":"2018-11-26T23:54:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T13:24:00","slug":"capturing-the-wonderful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1837-capturing-the-wonderful.html","title":{"rendered":"Capturing The Wonderful"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 --><a href=\"\/serendipity\/\" title=\"Robert&apos;s Ramblings\"><!-- s9ymdb:2506 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"607\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1651-1G2A6257.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nI had just arrived in Troms\u00f8, made the short trip to Ersfjordbotn and began getting settled on board our vessel when the word went out, &#8216;the lights are in the sky&#8217;.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nHalf unpacked, find tripod, check camera, leap from the ship onto the wharf, find a spot, set-up and go! What a wonderful introduction to Northern Norway!<br \/>\n  <br \/>\nThis very first glimpse of the aurora borealis has a special place now in my heart. Like the very first time I remember seeing snow, or even the ocean.<br \/>\nThis wonderful moment shared by all of us, still strangers on our first day, set the stage for the friendships we would make.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know who from our little group is in the middle field, crouched alongside their own tripods. I do know that they where just as taken with capturing this wonderful sight as I was.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPhoto: Robert Rath, &#8216;Capturing The Wonderful&#8217;,30s f\/4 ISO1600 13mm<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had just arrived in Troms\u00f8, made the short trip to Ersfjordbotn and began getting settled on board our vessel when the word went out, &#8216;the lights are in the sky&#8217;. Half unpacked, find tripod, check camera, leap from the ship onto the wharf, find a spot, set-up and go! What a wonderful introduction to &#8230; <a title=\"Capturing The Wonderful\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1837-capturing-the-wonderful.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Capturing The Wonderful\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}