{"id":5919,"date":"2016-03-14T22:44:03","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T12:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=5919"},"modified":"2016-03-14T22:44:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T12:14:03","slug":"its-a-rush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=5919","title":{"rendered":"It’s a Rush"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s like playing dare with the ocean.<\/p>\n

I watch for a while. Some surges rush by, water pushing and swirling past ankles and splashing my knees.<\/p>\n

Other incoming waves stack up full of pent-up fury before consuming themselves in the retreating backwash and leaving the sand wet and bare.<\/p>\n

I place my bet, position my tripod in the retreating backwash and set off the timer.<\/p>\n

Three, two, one, eek (not the word I actually used), grab tripod and lift it all clear as a huge rush of water catches me by surprise drenching my shorts and nearly toppling me over.<\/p>\n

Clean the splashes of salty water from the lens then try again, again, three, two, one, … <\/p>\n

Sure, I like to capture a dramatic moment but I can’t deny I like the rush.<\/p>\n

Photo: Robert Rath, ‘It’s a Rush, 1\/5s f\/14 ISO100 15mm<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s like playing dare with the ocean. I watch for a while. Some surges rush by, water pushing and swirling past ankles and splashing my knees. Other incoming waves stack up full of pent-up fury before consuming themselves in the retreating backwash and leaving the sand wet and bare. I place my bet, position my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[68,194,213,37,66,34,1474,69,424,72,212,428,43],"class_list":["post-5919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-beach","tag-clouds","tag-colour","tag-goldenhour","tag-henleybeach","tag-jetty","tag-rush","tag-seashore","tag-stormy","tag-sunset","tag-surf","tag-surge","tag-twilight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5921,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5919\/revisions\/5921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}