{"id":2570,"date":"2018-06-15T17:01:07","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T21:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/?p=2570"},"modified":"2018-06-15T17:04:40","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T21:04:40","slug":"smoky-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/?p=2570","title":{"rendered":"Smoky Skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The epitome of the Smokies and the Blue Ridge Mountains &#8211; hazy mountain tops and blah skies. \u00a0This region definitely has it&#8217;s spectacular sunsets, for sure, but more often than not the volatile summer weather patterns and valleys yield a foggy mess for us photogs.<\/p>\n<p>While curating and editing pictures from this trip, my inclination was to toss this image because of the haze. \u00a0But on second thought, I decided to embrace it for what it is &#8230; while not an eye-popping sunset spectacular, it is nonetheless the quintissential reality of\u00a0these mountain ranges in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>As a counter punch, beautiful flame azaleas were in full bloom\u00a0and spiced up the foreground as\u00a0sunset wrapped the day.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2571\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/L1005430-36-C1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2571\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2571\" src=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/L1005430-36-C1-700x467.jpg\" alt=\"Flame Azaleas at Dusk\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/L1005430-36-C1-700x467.jpg 700w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/L1005430-36-C1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/L1005430-36-C1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2571\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flame Azaleas at Dusk<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The epitome of the Smokies and the Blue Ridge Mountains &#8211; hazy mountain tops and blah skies. \u00a0This region definitely has it&#8217;s spectacular sunsets, for sure, but more often than not the volatile summer weather patterns and valleys yield a foggy mess for us photogs. While curating and editing pictures from this trip, my inclination [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[52,5,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2573,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570\/revisions\/2573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}