{"id":738,"date":"2013-07-30T21:09:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T10:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/738-day-577-adelaide-in-the-spotlight.html"},"modified":"2013-07-29T21:42:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T11:12:32","slug":"day-577-adelaide-in-the-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/738-day-577-adelaide-in-the-spotlight.html","title":{"rendered":"Day 577, Adelaide In The Spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:1122 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"520\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/577-_MG_7607.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nI have been waiting to capture this image of Adelaide for some time now.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI had already planned my vantage point, I simply had to wait for those few days where the sun would set at the perfect angle to reflect directly off the Westpac Building to where I would be standing. For any given vantage point which could get such a reflection there will only be two periods per year of a few days where the sun will set in just the right place to observe it. These few days at this location were it for me.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nTo plan this image I used the help of the Photographers Ephemeris and Google Maps. I simply mapped a line from my vantage point on to the western face of the building and traced it&#8217;s reflected path as a line out to the west-northwest. I then cycled through the days of the year until the the Photographers Ephemeris showed a matching line a few degrees above sunset. <br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, \u2018Day 577, Adelaide In The Spotlight&#8217; 1\/160 f\/8.0 ISO320 200mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; I have been waiting to capture this image of Adelaide for some time now. I had already planned my vantage point, I simply had to wait for those few days where the sun would set at the perfect angle to reflect directly off the Westpac Building to where I would be &#8230; <a title=\"Day 577, Adelaide In The Spotlight\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/738-day-577-adelaide-in-the-spotlight.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Day 577, Adelaide In The Spotlight\">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-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","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=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}