{"id":557,"date":"2008-10-20T22:33:08","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T22:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doctorross.co.za\/?p=557"},"modified":"2008-10-20T22:33:08","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T22:33:08","slug":"photo-of-the-day-20-october-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/?p=557","title":{"rendered":"Photo-of-the-Day &#8211; 20 October 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A beautiful day:\u00c2\u00a0 -16\u00c2\u00b0C and almost no wind.\u00c2\u00a0 At one stage, while wrestling a trapped skidoo, I stripped to short sleeves.\u00c2\u00a0 Clear blue skies above and a wonderful freshness to the clear air&#8230; it truly felt like spring. Everyone was outdoors working on different things and enjoying the break in the weather.\u00c2\u00a0 I headed down to the winter depot, to photograph the various containers and sleds for documentation.\u00c2\u00a0 Those that have a large wind profile cause local wind acceleration which creates a small wind-scoop over time, such as this one:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/containerwindscoop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-559\" title=\"A wind-scoop around a depot container\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/containerwindscoop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/containerwindscoop.jpg 800w, https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/containerwindscoop-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Later in the day I assisted our radio operator and electronic engineer, Gerhard, with making an inspection preliminary to some repairs on the radio mast in front of the base.\u00c2\u00a0 The mast supports the big HF radio antenna as well as a VHF whip on top, and from my lofty perch I had a beautiful panoramic view.\u00c2\u00a0 Beautiful panorama to follow, but here is a sample:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/sanae_iv_radiotower.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-558 aligncenter\" title=\"sanae_iv_radiotower\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/sanae_iv_radiotower.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/sanae_iv_radiotower.jpg 800w, https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/sanae_iv_radiotower-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For fun, here is a more abstract picture that I call &#8216;Mast Geometry&#8217;:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/downtower.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-560\" title=\"downtower\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/downtower.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/downtower.jpg 533w, https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/downtower-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Yes, Mum, I was tied in.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A beautiful day:\u00c2\u00a0 -16\u00c2\u00b0C and almost no wind.\u00c2\u00a0 At one stage, while wrestling a trapped skidoo, I stripped to short sleeves.\u00c2\u00a0 Clear blue skies above and a wonderful freshness to the clear air&#8230; it truly felt like spring. Everyone was outdoors working on different things and enjoying the break in the weather.\u00c2\u00a0 I headed down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antarctica","category-base","category-photo-of-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctorross.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}