{"id":393,"date":"2021-03-14T21:24:45","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T21:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andygawthrope.photography\/?p=393"},"modified":"2026-03-24T17:08:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:08:27","slug":"severn-sundown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andygawthrope.photography\/index.php\/2021\/03\/14\/severn-sundown\/","title":{"rendered":"Severn sundown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">A quick check of tides and a peek out the window identified yesterday as a great evening to be at my favourite local location. Yes, you got it, full-marks; its the Prince of Wales bridge aka the Second Severn Crossing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In an age where image manipulation is so prevalent the statement &#8216;A photograph never lies&#8217; has, unfortunetly, lost its meaning. But whilst this photograph is pretty much how it was, I can tell you that those nice warm colours lie! They really don&#8217;t convey how cold it felt! The air temperature was about 7 Celsius with a gusty 20MPH wind coming from the direction of the sun. So, actually it felt about 3 to 4 Celsius!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Yesterday I was reading about &#8216;skills fade&#8217; in &#8216;Summit&#8217; the magazine of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebmc.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">British Mountaineering Council<\/a>. The message was that climbers\/mountaineers shouldn&#8217;t just assume they are as skilled in their sport as they were prior to the coronavirus lockdowns. Basically, their skills are likely to have got &#8216;rusty&#8217; or faded through lack of use. Having fumbled-about making this photograph I can absolutely confirm I&#8217;m suffering from a photographic skills fade! There were times when I felt like a complete noob! Skills that seem to have faded are &#8216;seeing&#8217; &#8211; that ability to compose photographs in the mind &#8211; and just basic workflow stuff. Stuff that used to be second-nature; stuff I wasn&#8217;t even aware I was doing. I&#8217;m sure those skills will grow again but it was a bit depressing. Despite that I\u2019m pretty happy with the result \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>Andy<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick check of tides and a peek out the window identified yesterday as a great evening to be at my favourite local location. Yes, you got it, full-marks; its the Prince of Wales bridge aka the Second Severn Crossing. In an age where image manipulation is so prevalent the statement &#8216;A photograph never lies&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,64],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landscape","tag-england","tag-gloucestershire"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andygawthrope.photography\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andygawthrope.photography\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andygawthrope.photography\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andygawthrope.photography\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andygawthrope.photography\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/andygawthrope.photography\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"https:\/\/andygawthrope.photography\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andygawthrope.photography\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andygawthrope.photography\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andygawthrope.photography\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andygawthrope.photography\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}