{"id":1465,"date":"2016-01-02T13:35:28","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T20:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/?p=1465"},"modified":"2018-12-29T21:07:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T04:07:21","slug":"10-best-of-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/?p=1465","title":{"rendered":"10 best of 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Lightning
Lightning Strikes the Maroon Bells<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last year due to crazy busy holidays I didn’t have a chance to post a 10 best photos of 2014. It was an amazing year. Top honors goes to this photo I captured at the Maroon Bells of lightning striking the peak during my road trip to Colorado in the fall.<\/p>\n

\"Self
Self Portrait Amongst Ancients<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I also did some night photography up in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest. My favorite shot being this self portrait.<\/p>\n

\"Backlit
Backlit Snow and the Sneffels Range<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I found the Sneffels Range in Colorado to be absolutely spectacular. Here a storm was raining ice pellets in the late afternoon. The lower elevation aspens were just starting to show signs of changing while the upper elevations were brilliant gold. I found this quality of light to be superb.<\/p>\n

\"97
97 Switchbacks At Night, Digital Edition (v2)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In July I went up to the 97 switchbacks again with some new friends to re-capture them at night, this time with digital cameras. Instead of one long exposure on film, these are done with multiple 30 second exposures, which are added together in processing.<\/p>\n

\"Clearing
Clearing Thunderstorm Over Mount Muir<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While on that expedition, we were greeted by a morning thunderstorm that broke just at sunrise. Here the storm is parting over Mount Muir.<\/p>\n

\"Holdouts\"
Holdouts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I have always been fascinated by trees that stick out from their surroundings. In the valley of the Maroon Bells this group of aspens struck me from across the valley.<\/p>\n

\"Aspen
Aspen Dreams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On the subject of aspens, they are among my favorite trees. I have sought for a long time to find a dense aspen forest. In Kebler Pass in Colorado, I finally found one.<\/p>\n

\"Lone
Lone Ranch Sunset<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At long last I got to visit the spectacular Oregon Coast.<\/p>\n

\"Sunrise
Sunrise Above and Below the Clouds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While visiting Lassen Volcanic National Park, I came across this scene at sunrise. I loved the color reflecting off of the fog and through the the thin clouds above.<\/p>\n

\"Lichen
Lichen Forest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Finally, I close out the top 10 with this remarkable forest, also in Lassen Volcanic National Park. Tree after tree was covered in brilliant green lichen, enriched by wet, overcast conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last year due to crazy busy holidays I didn’t have a chance to post a 10 best photos of 2014. It was an amazing year. Top honors goes to this photo I captured at the Maroon Bells of lightning striking the peak during my road trip to Colorado in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-favorites"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1465"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1482,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions\/1482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}