{"id":807,"date":"2008-05-06T23:11:24","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T14:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2008-05-06\/807"},"modified":"2008-05-11T23:33:58","modified_gmt":"2008-05-11T14:33:58","slug":"back-from-five-days-of-camping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2008-05-06\/807","title":{"rendered":"Back From Five Days of Camping"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class='ic'><a name='051715' href=\"\/i\/JEF_051715.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JEF_051715_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"462\"\nalt=\", f\/3.5, ISO 500 &amp;mdash; map &amp; image data &amp;mdash; nearby photos First Evening Half an hour after sunset. -- Kotobikihama, Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2008 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i051715\"\nphotostream=\"anthony\"\ntitle=\"Our tent lit by a single candle, at our campground on the first evening of our trip, on a cliff overlooking Kotobikihama beach, in north-western Kyoto Prefecture, Japan\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D200 + Nikkor 18-200mm  f\/3.5-5.6 VR @ 18 mm &mdash; <span style='color:white'>10 sec<\/span>, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/3.5, ISO 500 &mdash;\n<span class='nobr'><a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJEF_051715.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JEF_051715.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>First Evening<\/span>\n<br\/>Half an hour after sunset.\n<\/div>\n\n<p>I <a href=\"\/blog\/2008-05-01\/806\">mentioned the other\nday<\/a> that <span class='nobr'>I was<\/span> going to take Anthony camping for the first time, and <span class='nobr'>I\ndid.<\/span> <span class='nobr'>We just got<\/span> back this afternoon.<\/p>\n\n<p>I'll write more about the whole experience another day (one that <span class='nobr'>I don't<\/span>\nwake up at 5am), but the location was <span class='nobr'>a campground<\/span> on <span class='nobr'>a cliff<\/span> overlooking\nKotobikihama beach (<a\nhref=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJEF_051715.jpg\">map<\/a>)\nabout three and <span class='nobr'>a half<\/span> hours away by car, in the far north-western corner\nof Kyoto prefecture.<\/p>\n\n<p>I took the picture above on our first night, about half an hour after\nsunset. <span class='nobr'>It was so<\/span> dark that <span class='nobr'>I could<\/span> barely see anything (including how\ntilted the camera was), although the 10-second exposure compensates to\nallow the photo to show much more than could be seen. <span class='nobr'>The light<\/span> in the tent\nwas from <span class='nobr'>a single<\/span> small candle (safely parked in a <a class='quiet'\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/UCO-Original-Candle-Lantern-Black\/dp\/B000E7XF6U\/\">candle\nlantern<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n<p>Five-year-old Anthony enjoyed the moment, mostly because of his\nall-his-own kid-sized camping chair <i>with drink holder<\/i>. <span class='nobr'>I'd bought<\/span> it\nthe previous day (along with the tent, my chair, and <span class='nobr'>a bunch<\/span> of other stuff\nfor the trip).<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic tight'><a name='052226' href=\"\/i\/JEF_052226.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JEF_052226_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"462\"\nalt=\"Final Evening A few seconds before sunset -- Kotobikihama, Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2008 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i052226\"\ntitle=\"Fairly drab sunset from Kotobikihama beach, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D200 + Nikkor 18-200mm  f\/3.5-5.6 VR @ 18 mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>250 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/5, ISO 250 &mdash;\n<span class='nobr'><a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJEF_052226.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JEF_052226.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Final Evening<\/span>\n<br\/>A few seconds before sunset\n<\/div>\n\n<p>You can actually see a few pixels of sun on the horizon in the picture\nabove, just left of center. It's as &#8220;the moment of sunset&#8221; as <span class='nobr'>I could<\/span> get,\nduring <span class='nobr'>a fairly<\/span> drab sunset. Some of the other sunsets were more drab, and\nsome much nicer. <span class='nobr'>I have shots<\/span> of them all, of course :-).<\/p>\n\n<p><i><a href='\/blog\/2008-05-08\/808' class='quiet'>Continued here...<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n\n<!-- href=https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2008-05-17\/818 -->\n<!-- href=https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2008-05-26\/824 -->\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned the other day that I was going to take Anthony camping for the first time, and I did. We just got back this afternoon.<\/p> <p>I'll write more about the whole experience another day (one that I don't wake up at 5am), but the location was a campground on a cliff overlooking Kotobikihama beach (map) about three and a half hours away by car, in the far north-western corner of Kyoto prefecture.<\/p> <p>I took the picture above on our first night, about half an hour after sunset. It was so dark that I could barely see anything (including how [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2,18,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}