{"id":40,"date":"2007-03-20T09:48:13","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T17:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/2007\/03\/20\/wikimedia-photo-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2007-03-20T09:48:13","modified_gmt":"2007-03-20T17:48:13","slug":"wikimedia-photo-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/2007\/03\/20\/wikimedia-photo-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikimedia Photo of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wikimedia is Wikipedia&#8217;s somewhat lesser known counterpart for media, including lots of photos. Apparently there was some kind of contest to choose the best photo of 2006. I found out about it today via Digg.  The photo that won is really stunning. You can view it at <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year\/2006\">http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year\/2006<\/a>.  I&#8217;ve always wanted to see the Northern Lights, and this just adds to my desire.  Maybe someday.<\/p>\n<p>About the photo, the final version was retouched and enhanced. The photographer posted the original to Wikimedia as well. I respect that because I often wonder when I see a stunning photo just how much it was edited. Photoshop is a great tool, but I have to question where the line is between artistic photos and realistic photos. I tend to be more minimalist regarding editing photos, and don&#8217;t get into the heavy enhancements or filters, but seeing the difference between the original and finished photo makes me want to learn more about retouching photos. I think the retouching done on this photo added to the visual impact without distorting reality.<\/p>\n<p>Kudos to the photographer Joshua Strang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikimedia is Wikipedia&#8217;s somewhat lesser known counterpart for media, including lots of photos. Apparently there was some kind of contest to choose the best photo of 2006. I found out about it today via Digg. The photo that won is really stunning. You can view it at http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year\/2006. I&#8217;ve always wanted to see the Northern &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/2007\/03\/20\/wikimedia-photo-of-the-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wikimedia Photo of the Year&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}