{"id":1118,"date":"2009-09-07T19:57:55","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T01:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/?p=1118"},"modified":"2009-09-15T22:48:23","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T04:48:23","slug":"just-looking-for-a-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/07\/just-looking-for-a-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Looking For A Hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/DSC_2472blog.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1118]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/sharp1.jpg\" alt=\"sharp1\" title=\"sharp1\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/sharp1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/sharp1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I found myself with a little free time Saturday and since I haven&#8217;t gotten a lot of chances to use my ultra-wide-angle lens, I went looking for something to shoot. I eventually ended up at the old bridge over the Maumelle River on an abandoned stretch of Arkansas Highway 300 in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkansasstateparks.com\/pinnaclemountain\/\">Pinnacle Mountain State Park<\/a>. This bridge is popular with local photographers and rightly so. It&#8217;s old and rusty and corroded and interesting.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Sharpenedblog.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1118]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Sharpenedblog-300x452.jpg\" alt=\"Sharpenedblog\" title=\"Sharpenedblog\" width=\"300\" height=\"452\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Sharpenedblog-300x452.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Sharpenedblog.jpg 398w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendsot.org\/about_the_trail\">Ouachita Trail<\/a> runs down this short stretch of abandoned highway. The trail runs about 200 miles across the Ouachita Mountains from Pinnacle Mountain State Park near Little Rock to eastern Oklahoma. Hanging around out there gave me the idea to hike the Ouachita Trail. I&#8217;d probably have to do it in segments. We&#8217;ll see how that idea pans out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/DSC_2433blog.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1118]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/DSC_2433blogII.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_2433blogII\" title=\"DSC_2433blogII\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/DSC_2433blogII.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/DSC_2433blogII-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/sharpbridgeblog.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1118]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/sharpbridgeblog-600x398.jpg\" alt=\"sharpbridgeblog\" title=\"sharpbridgeblog\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/sharpbridgeblog-600x398.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/sharpbridgeblog-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/sharpbridgeblog.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/sharptrailsign.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1118]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/sharptrailsign1.jpg\" alt=\"sharptrailsign\" title=\"sharptrailsign\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/sharptrailsign1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/sharptrailsign1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found myself with a little free time Saturday and since I haven&#8217;t gotten a lot of chances to use my ultra-wide-angle lens, I went looking for something to shoot. I eventually ended up at the old bridge over the Maumelle River on an abandoned stretch of Arkansas Highway 300 in Pinnacle Mountain State Park. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,79,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arkansas","category-exploring","category-photography","entry entry-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1159,"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions\/1159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}