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<\/a><\/center>Happy Winter Solstice! Although the winter weather just moved into Nebraska, I thought I should post a wintry photograph as it is the Winter Solstice. This scene was captured near Peyto Lake in Canada a few years back on a cool morning. All around the snow sparkled in the light of the recently risen sun and I hiked through the snow drifts to line up find a perfect tree to capture the contrast of the long shadows stretching toward me.<\/p>\nTechnical Details: Happy Winter Solstice! Although the winter weather just moved into Nebraska, I thought I should post a wintry photograph as it is the Winter Solstice. This scene was captured near Peyto Lake in Canada a few years back on a cool morning. All around the snow sparkled in the light …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,119,130,29,30,52,56,69],"tags":[169,180,187],"class_list":["post-1555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banff-national-park","category-landscape","category-nature","category-photo-friday","category-photograph","category-sunstar","category-trees","category-winter","tag-photograph","tag-snow","tag-winter","column","twocol","has-thumbnail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nCanon 5D, 17-40 f\/4l @ 17mm<\/a>, f\/16, 1\/80 sec.
\nBanff National Park<\/a>, Canada<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"