{"id":550,"date":"2012-05-02T23:54:42","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T03:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/?p=550"},"modified":"2012-05-09T23:45:02","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T03:45:02","slug":"smokies-in-the-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/?p=550","title":{"rendered":"Smokies in the Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visiting the Cades Cove and Townsend areas last fall inspired me to revisit in the spring.\u00a0 It did not take much arm twisting to get Carl, Jerry, and John to join in.\u00a0 We all were eager to see the mountains in full bloom, however mother nature decided to expose the full splendor of her flowers much, much earlier this year.\u00a0 We were a few weeks late, but that&#8217;s OK.\u00a0 There are still plenty of streams and scenery to photograph.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday afternoon we visited the river and cascades along the roadside between Cades Cove and Tremont.\u00a0 Nothing was &#8220;grabbing&#8221; me along the stream, so I decided to setup and shoot something a little different.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_578\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-578\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-578\" title=\"GSMNP12_0232\" src=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/GSMNP12_02322-700x466.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/GSMNP12_02322-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/GSMNP12_02322-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/GSMNP12_02322.jpg 1194w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-578\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tunnel on Laurel Creek Road - Great Smoky Mountains National Park<\/p><\/div>\n<p>5D MkII, 50mm f\/1.4, 10 secs. @ f\/11, ISO 100<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_552\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-552\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-552\" title=\"GSMNP_0566\" src=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/GSMNP_0566-700x466.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/GSMNP_0566-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/GSMNP_0566-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/GSMNP_0566.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-552\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jerry, John, Carl, and Mark - GSMNP Entrance near Townsend, TN<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visiting the Cades Cove and Townsend areas last fall inspired me to revisit in the spring.\u00a0 It did not take much arm twisting to get Carl, Jerry, and John to join in.\u00a0 We all were eager to see the mountains in full bloom, however mother nature decided to expose the full splendor of her flowers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,5,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550"}],"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=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":579,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions\/579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}