{"id":899,"date":"2008-05-17T21:07:20","date_gmt":"2008-05-18T05:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/?p=899"},"modified":"2008-05-17T21:12:24","modified_gmt":"2008-05-18T05:12:24","slug":"first-images-from-missouri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/17\/first-images-from-missouri\/","title":{"rendered":"First Images from Missouri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I survived the early morning flight, the long drive from the airport to the hotel, and the frustration of the GPS unit running out of battery in between destinations. And i haven&#8217;t seen my first tornado yet. The images below are far from the quality I&#8217;d like to show. I&#8217;d planned on editing all the images shot in the same day at the same night. But because I&#8217;ve had to bring a lot of equipment with me, I forgot to bring my monitor calibration kit; so the colors are going to be off, images unsharpened and a few other quirks. But I really want to post some of the stuff I&#8217;ve seen here. So I&#8217;ve decided to go ahead and post them first and swap them out later on Flickr (since as a Pro member, I have that feature available to me).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/powerchu\/2501275134\/\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3170\/2501275134_2969efc9cf.jpg\" alt=\"Tornado Town\" width=\"450\" height=\"360\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/powerchu\/2500446129\/\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2290\/2500446129_88002d0601.jpg\" alt=\"Hampton Inn, Columbia, Missouri\" width=\"450\" height=\"360\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHit the link to read additional notes on this image at Flickr (mouse over the image once at Flickr to see the notes).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/powerchu\/2500446021\/\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3225\/2500446021_c819275c43.jpg\" alt=\"Exit to \"YY\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"360\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few interesting observations I made in the first 3 hours of arrival:<br \/>\n1. Interesting signs are everywhere!<br \/>\n2. Local radio stations have more country music than anything else <strong>combined<\/strong>.<br \/>\n3. Local car mechanics advertise not only to fix your car, but also your tracker on the radio!<br \/>\n4. I couldn&#8217;t find NPR on any of the local stations. The only thing closest to it is some feminist station talking about all things <em>Girl Power<\/em> (or at least in the 2 hours that I tried listening to parts of it).<\/p>\n<p>So tomorrow is going to be a full day at the practice range&#8230; <em>Bang! Bang! Bang!<\/em>* <\/p>\n<p><em>*Good thing my client offered an old pair of her ear muffs to me&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I survived the early morning flight, the long drive from the airport to the hotel, and the frustration of the GPS unit running out of battery in between destinations. And i haven&#8217;t seen my first tornado yet. The images below are far from the quality I&#8217;d like to show. I&#8217;d planned on editing all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/17\/first-images-from-missouri\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;First Images from Missouri&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-day-to-day-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-ev","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}