{"id":422,"date":"2009-12-31T15:13:05","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T20:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=422"},"modified":"2009-12-31T15:13:05","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T20:13:05","slug":"ice-sculptures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=422","title":{"rendered":"Ice sculptures"},"content":{"rendered":"

On New Year’s Eve, I walk through the site of the State College festivities on my way to work and take pictures of the ice sculptures. <\/p>\n

Here’s 2007’s best photo:
\n\"ice<\/p>\n

And my 2008 favorite:
\n\"ice<\/p>\n

But here’s what the 2009 sculptures looked like this morning:<\/p>\n

\"ice<\/p>\n

\"ice<\/p>\n

They’ve changed the format, and instead of the sculptures being done<\/i> by New Year’s Eve, the crowd gets to watch the sculptors work. At least this year it is neither bitterly cold nor raining.<\/p>\n

I walked through last night, and the big blocks of ice were all wrapped up in their protective insulating blankets. The little ones were done – I believe they carve them elsewhere and bring them in finished, since they don’t require many blocks of ice.<\/p>\n

\"ice<\/p>\n

\"ice<\/p>\n

Night-time photography is always interesting, but my Sony alpha does an excellent job in low-light conditions, barring a tendency to turn everything orange. (I have a photo of Morgan that makes him look like he’s in flames.) I’m certain I can overcome that if I learn which settings to tweak.<\/p>\n

I hope you all have a fabulous evening of whatever sort you find most congenial, and I’ll see you next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On New Year’s Eve, I walk through the site of the State College festivities on my way to work and take pictures of the ice sculptures. Here’s 2007’s best photo: And my 2008 favorite: But here’s what the 2009 sculptures looked like this morning: They’ve changed the format, and instead of the sculptures being done […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mood-enhancers","category-photography","category-winter-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}