{"id":1388,"date":"2018-11-08T12:40:35","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T12:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennispresiloski.com\/portfolio\/?p=1388"},"modified":"2019-05-24T11:09:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T11:09:21","slug":"when-the-cows-go-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennispresiloski.com\/portfolio\/2018\/11\/08\/when-the-cows-go-home\/","title":{"rendered":"When the Cows Go Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Laos<\/a><\/p>\n

Driving around on a scooter west of Vang Vieng, trying to pick out a spot for a sunset shot. It appears to me that the sun will set dead center on this country road, and I like the smoke from whatever the farmers are burning back there, so I park and hang out.<\/p>\n

What I really need though is a focal point. The scene makes a great background, but I need some “thing” in front. If I’d brought my tripod I could pose, or if Tarzan Girl was around I could stick her in there, but negative on both accounts.<\/p>\n

A kid drives by on a scooter. I take a shot of him as a test. Not great. Some other tourists ride by. They see me standing there with my camera, get off their bikes, and try to figure out what I’m taking a picture of so they can take a picture of it too. They give up and get back on their bikes.<\/p>\n

The sun is getting pretty darn low now, and it looks like I might have to settle for just the road. But I hear bells clanging, and from the field behind me a kid with a stick is prodding a herd of cows onto the road. Showtime!<\/p>\n

I let three go by, then walk along behind them, with a few dozen more cows behind me. Mooo! I’m part of the herd, but herding as well, as I try to shuffle the three in front of me into some sort of pleasing composition.<\/p>\n

I’ve got the shutter set to automatic, and just keep my finger down, clicking pic after pic after pic. Finally a truck comes along the other way, and the herd and I are shuffled to one side. The cows head home, and so do I.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Driving around on a scooter west of Vang Vieng, trying to pick out a spot for a sunset shot. It appears to me that the sun will set dead center on this country road, and I like the smoke from whatever the farmers are burning back there, so I park and hang out. What I really need though is a...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[21,56],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/dennispresiloski.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/DSC_6311-Edit.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jba6-mo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennispresiloski.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennispresiloski.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennispresiloski.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennispresiloski.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennispresiloski.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/dennispresiloski.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1509,"href":"http:\/\/dennispresiloski.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions\/1509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennispresiloski.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennispresiloski.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennispresiloski.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennispresiloski.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}