{"id":5000,"date":"2018-06-21T16:14:50","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T23:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=5000"},"modified":"2018-06-21T16:14:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T23:14:50","slug":"stealing-the-sun-ketchikan-alaska-06-21-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=5000","title":{"rendered":"Stealing the Sun \u2013 Ketchikan, Alaska \u2013 [06\/21\/2018]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-5001\" src=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/DSC_0015_edited-2-1024x611.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"444\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/DSC_0015_edited-2-1024x611.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/DSC_0015_edited-2-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/DSC_0015_edited-2-768x458.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/DSC_0015_edited-2.jpg 1064w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/>You don\u2019t always realize what a blessing sunshine is until you\u2019re in an area that doesn\u2019t get it every day. Don\u2019t get me wrong, I adore Alaska, and I honestly do like the rain \u2013 but after a season of liquid sunshine, I swear we start to develop a little bit of vitamin D craving.<\/p>\n<p>But Ketchikan is the last place you expect to see sun. In fact, we usually joke that Ketchikan gets 390 days of rain per year (see what we did there). But today proved to be the exception \u2013 it was gloriously sunny out, enough so that everyone was shedding their layers and walking around in short sleeves and light summer pants. Which was perfect timing for Amras and I to go up to the resteraunt on the hill \u2013 something the rain had prevented us from doing on previous calls (there\u2019s not a lot of point in dining on top of a mountain if you can\u2019t see anything but rain).<\/p>\n<p>After lunch, there were totem poles to visit and trails to hike ,and art galleries to explore. No matter how many times life brings me, I never ever seem to grow tired of this place\u2026<\/p>\n<p>There are some days when you just don\u2019t need anything else except a hand in yours and a good dose of sunshine.<\/p>\n<p>Mum &amp; Dad have loaned me their much higher-quality-than-mine camera for the duration of this contract, so I spent most of the day being a complete shutterbug, trying to figure out all the various settings. And then once we did get back, trying to figure out how to take the mountains of raw data (really, raw, as in the file format, and when you shoot in that format, it is supposed to be run through an editor program to bring it up to replicate what you actually saw) into something remotely resembling what I was actually looking at \u2013 this is proving to be a bit of challenge as photographer I am not, and photo-editor I am <em>definitely<\/em> not.<\/p>\n<p>But I am relatively pleased with how the pictures turned out.<\/p>\n<p>Great, just what I need another hobby \ud83d\ude1b Perhaps hobbies just come when you\u2019re happy, as I seem to be accumulating them as of late.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You don\u2019t always realize what a blessing sunshine is until you\u2019re in an area that doesn\u2019t get it every day. 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