{"id":22610,"date":"2023-03-19T14:58:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T19:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22610"},"modified":"2023-04-10T08:26:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T13:26:41","slug":"great-falls-maryland-from-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22610","title":{"rendered":"Great Falls, Maryland (from Virginia)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22612\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_20230319_006917-26.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22612\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_20230319_006917-26-350x66.jpg\" alt=\"Great Falls, Maryland (from Virginia)\" width=\"350\" height=\"66\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_20230319_006917-26-350x66.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_20230319_006917-26-1024x194.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_20230319_006917-26-768x145.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_20230319_006917-26-1536x290.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_20230319_006917-26-680x130.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_20230319_006917-26.jpg 1799w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22612\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great Falls, Maryland (from Virginia)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We met our good friend Jean today and went to the Virginia side of Great Falls (which are in Maryland, because the state boundary is the Virginia shore line). It was a chilly day but beautifully clear. Most photos were taken with my long lens, including one of a heron across the river and an immature bald eagle flying overhead. I almost got a good photo of a turkey vulture (<em>Cathartes aura<\/em>) fairly close overhead but it&#8217;s only about 60% in the frame. Tracking and focusing such a large, heavy lens on a moving subject is still more than I can do reliably. I switched to my 100mm, which I carried in a pouch on my belt, for two sets of images that I stitched into panoramas. This is one of those two, which I&#8217;ve also cropped down and will use as my site&#8217;s banner image for a while. The previous banner, of Portland Head Light in Maine has been the banner since late 2015 so I thought it was time for a change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We met our good friend Jean today and went to the Virginia side of Great Falls (which are in Maryland, because the state boundary is the Virginia shore line). It was a chilly day but beautifully clear. Most photos were taken with my long lens, including one of a heron across the river and an &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22610\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[591,3322,936,300],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22613,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22610\/revisions\/22613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}