{"id":284,"date":"2009-08-22T06:48:25","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T13:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/gap-mountain-aug-2109\/"},"modified":"2017-01-01T22:01:41","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T05:01:41","slug":"gap-mountain-aug-2109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/gap-mountain-aug-2109\/","title":{"rendered":"Gap Mountain Aug 21\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_283\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/p8210095.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-283\" class=\"wp-image-283 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/p8210095-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"p8210095\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/p8210095-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/p8210095-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/p8210095.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-283\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gap Mountain, Kananaskis, Highwood Pass<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hiked up to base of Gap with a buddy.\u00a0 Explored on the rock but too loose and exposed for a hiker.<\/p>\n<p>Tried out a new camera &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.olympusamerica.com\/cpg_section\/product.asp?product=1393\">Olympus 565UZ<\/a>.\u00a0 My friends with DSLR&#8217;s will howl but I have owned top quality SLRs and I am not a good photographer so the extra capability is wasted on me.<\/p>\n<p>The ease of use and advantages of a small lightweight(13 oz.)\u00a0ultra zoom(20X) offset the disadvantages for me.\u00a0 The ultrazooms do have slightly poorer image quality, are slower and don&#8217;t do as well in low light conditions but\u00a0 I was able to pick up the 565 at a discontinued price of $320 CDN so it is a cheap experiment compared to a DSLR.<\/p>\n<p>Pictures are here &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">check out the tele shot of a weather station and the butterfly shot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/billkerr.zenfolio.com\/p456094525\">Gap Mountain<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Hiked up to base of Gap with a buddy.\u00a0 Explored on the rock but too loose and exposed for a hiker. Tried out a new camera &#8211; Olympus 565UZ.\u00a0 My friends with DSLR&#8217;s will howl but I have owned &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/gap-mountain-aug-2109\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,8],"tags":[45,16,119,22,118],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hike","category-scramble","tag-alberta","tag-alpine","tag-hike","tag-kananaskis","tag-scramble"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1783,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/1783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkerr.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}