{"id":700,"date":"2012-09-24T21:25:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T01:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/?p=700"},"modified":"2012-09-24T21:38:16","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T01:38:16","slug":"sunrise-walk-on-cannon-beach-or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/?p=700","title":{"rendered":"Sunrise Walk on Cannon Beach, OR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This will hopefully be the beginning of several blog posts from last week&#8217;s trip to Oregon with my best bud Carl.\u00a0 Oregon was new to both of us, so lots to explore.\u00a0 We spent months planning (perhaps better stated as Carl did months of planning while I contributed occasionally).\u00a0 We not only agonized over where to go, but when.\u00a0 Having to coordinate around our work schedules also presented extra challenges, and the numerous changes and adjustments contributed to our friends Jerry and Betsy not being able to join us.\u00a0 But with trials and tribulations come rewards.<\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t even have the coast in our plans, but after adequate coverage of the Columbia Gorge we decided to venture to the Cannon Beach area.\u00a0 Cannon Beach is about an hour and a half west of Portland.<\/p>\n<p>The weather presented us with a &#8220;blah&#8221; first afternoon, but we stayed persistent.\u00a0 On the second morning there, both Carl and I ventured out at sunrise not knowing what to expect of the lingering fog.\u00a0 Sometimes it lifts and clears out, other times it hangs on for dear life.\u00a0 But we each pried ourselves out of bed, knowing we would enjoy a serene walk to the sound of the waves and a pleasant 55F temperature.\u00a0 As is often the case with this photographer stuff, opportunities arise from seemingly nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>As the clouds began to part, I was struck not only by the &#8220;Haystack&#8221; and its accompanying iconic rocks just off shore, but also by how many people were up walking this early.\u00a0 I captured this couple out for their morning walk on the beach, taking advantage of their reference to display the shear scale of both the massive rocks and the beach itself.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_705\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-705\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-705\" title=\"IMG_2044\" src=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_20441-700x466.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_20441-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_20441-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_20441.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-705\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morning Walk &#8211; Cannon Beach, OR<\/p><\/div>\n<p>5D MkII, 24-70L @ 34mm, 1.6sec @ f\/22<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This will hopefully be the beginning of several blog posts from last week&#8217;s trip to Oregon with my best bud Carl.\u00a0 Oregon was new to both of us, so lots to explore.\u00a0 We spent months planning (perhaps better stated as Carl did months of planning while I contributed occasionally).\u00a0 We not only agonized over where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,5,24,10,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700"}],"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=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}