{"id":8995,"date":"2020-11-20T23:40:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T06:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/?p=8995"},"modified":"2020-11-20T23:40:22","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T06:40:22","slug":"lost-in-a-sea-of-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/20\/lost-in-a-sea-of-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost In A Sea Of Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Earlier this week, we headed to La Junta in south-eastern Colorado. We visited the John Martin Reservoir State Park. This location is popular with many birders for a variety for bird species. This reservoir is several miles long when water levels are high. However with the hot dry summer this year, the water level was very low.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That day, the sky was clear of any clouds. It was a hot day with no wind. The water was absolutely still like a mirror. We parked close to the boat ramp and walked down to the water’s edge. As we made our way down, it felt like we were immersed in sea of blue. I headed back to the truck to get a camera and long lens to capture all this the blue, that was a reflection of the sky at midday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heading back down the boat ramp, Angela was hidden by the concrete ramp. As I got closer to the water’s edge, her figure standing on the pier, just rose above the ramp, surrounded by blue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Angela On Pier, John Martin Reservoir.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

To one side of the boat ramp, the only color to contrast against the blue, was a red traffic cone, that had fallen on its side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Red Cone, Lost In A Sea Of Blue.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Looking across towards the dam wall, the sluice gates were reflected in the still water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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John Martin Reservoir, Dam Wall.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Wandering along the foreshore, I found some rocks that appeared to have risen out of the sea of blue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rocks And Reflections, Along Foreshore.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Close by there were some more rocks, with some brush that contrasted against the reflection of the blue skies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rocks And Brush, Along Foreshore.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In the distance, I could hear some Canada Geese that were swimming across the lake. I zoomed the lens to capture the geese against the reflections of the sluice gates of the dam wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Canada Geese And Dam Wall.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We explored the campground below the dam wall for the next hour. Here we found more bird life than in the dam and along the shoreline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week, we headed to La Junta in south-eastern Colorado. We visited the John Martin Reservoir State Park. This location is popular with many birders for a variety for bird species. This reservoir is several miles long when water levels are high. However with the hot dry summer this year, the water level was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[10,1109,94,28,1735,686,1737,1013,306],"class_list":{"0":"post-8995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general","7":"tag-blue","8":"tag-blue-skies","9":"tag-dam","10":"tag-reflections","11":"tag-reservoir","12":"tag-rocks","13":"tag-sluice-gate","14":"tag-wall","15":"tag-water"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMatQ-2l5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8995"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9000,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8995\/revisions\/9000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}