{"id":75,"date":"2007-08-02T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-03T00:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/2007\/08\/02\/beneath-the-lake\/"},"modified":"2007-08-02T16:25:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-03T00:25:00","slug":"beneath-the-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/2007\/08\/02\/beneath-the-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Beneath the Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Beneath<\/a>
\nTaken at Trinity Lake, CA<\/a>
\nWhile camping I got a chance to shoot with my new 70-300mm lens. I loved it. It really brings things in, especially compared to the 18-55mm I’ve been using for the past couple of years. I figured after two years, I was due for a lens upgrade. So far I have not been disappointed with the new lens. At full zoom the images look great, although you do need a lot of light, even with image stabilization. I took some great shots of the kids from really far away.<\/p>\n

Anyway, about the shot. Trinity Lake is a reservoir in the Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area west of Redding, CA. It was farmland and forest once upon a time; the numerous tree stumps bear witness to the forest that once stood there. This year the lake is pretty low, so a lot of what is normally underwater is exposed. There were a few dozen of these stumps a short walk from our campsite. <\/p>\n

The soil is a red dirt, so when it’s stirred up by boats or swimmers in the water you can see red clouds floating along the shore. The mud has stained all the stumps, giving them a red hue. Over the years of being submerged, the soil has eroded away from the stumps, leaving the major root structures visible. It’s a pretty cool effect with red tones and the stumps seemingly hanging in the air. Even more so when there are groups of stumps. I’d hate to see what happens to a boat that hits one of these when they’re hidden by the water.<\/p>\n

Here’s a macro shot of a stump farther up the shoreline:
\n\"Old<\/a><\/p>\n

Trinity Lake is a wonderful place to camp<\/a>. We don’t boat, but if you do the lake is great for water sports. It’s big, warm, and the surrounding mountains are spectacular. This year the lake is really low because of the low rainfall in Northern California<\/a>. The lake was so low that the boat ramp near our campground was closed. The cement ended about 30 yards from the water. Here’s a shot of the walkway that runs along theramp:
\nTrinity Lake Boat Ramp<\/a> <\/p>\n

The main image is hosted on Zooomr with a geotag<\/a>. There are some other shots<\/a> of the trip there as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Taken at Trinity Lake, CA While camping I got a chance to shoot with my new 70-300mm lens. I loved it. It really brings things in, especially compared to the 18-55mm I’ve been using for the past couple of years. I figured after two years, I was due for a lens upgrade. So far I … Continue reading “Beneath the Lake”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75"}],"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=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}