{"id":1916,"date":"2016-03-16T09:04:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T09:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=1916"},"modified":"2016-03-16T09:04:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T09:04:04","slug":"red-sky-at-night-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=1916","title":{"rendered":"Red sky at night"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"Red sky at night\" data-info-url=\"\" data-backend-url=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/plugins\/shariff-sharing\/backend\/index.php\" data-temp=\"\/tmp\" data-ttl=\"60\" data-service=\"gft\" data-services='[\"googleplus\",\"facebook\",\"twitter\",\"info\"]' data-image=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSCF2148.jpg\" data-url=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=1916\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"color\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div><p>It was a lovely night.\u00a0 The sun was just dipping under the horizon as I drove towards Maud,\u00a0 the sky a bright orange colour.\u00a0\u00a0 It was frustrating not being able to stop the car just where I wanted &#8211; there were so many views to photograph.\u00a0 But dusk on narrow country roads, and a bit of time pressure to get to Turriff made stopping impossible<\/p>\n<p>However, I remembered stopping before on a similar evening, watching the sunset sky as I approached Old Deer and I found the place again.\u00a0\u00a0 But the really spectacular\u00a0views were on the road from Old Deer to Maud.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSCF2148.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1913\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1913 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSCF2148.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF2148\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSCF2148.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSCF2148-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSCF2148-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSCF2148-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I managed a couple of shots, but how I wished I could have stopped and captured that picture I saw of the silhouette of the bare tree against the orange sky, or the mysterious wood on top of a hill ahead of me.\u00a0 But cars behind me and no place to stop put a damper on that.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I was able to enjoy the view from the windscreen.\u00a0\u00a0 And there will be another night&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSCF2150.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1915\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1915 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSCF2150.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF2150\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSCF2150.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSCF2150-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSCF2150-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSCF2150-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a lovely night.\u00a0 The sun was just dipping under the horizon as I drove towards Maud,\u00a0 the sky a bright orange colour.\u00a0\u00a0 It was frustrating not being able to stop the car just where I wanted &#8211; there were so many views to photograph.\u00a0 But dusk on narrow country roads, and a bit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crudencountry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1916"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1918,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions\/1918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}