{"id":17380,"date":"2012-02-11T09:06:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T16:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=5844"},"modified":"2012-02-11T09:06:26","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T16:06:26","slug":"time-tide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/11\/time-tide\/","title":{"rendered":"Time &amp; Tide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada&#8217;s Bay of Fundy features a high tide that can be 50+ feet higher than low tide. Check out this time lapse:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"216\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hbzwzrZXUKA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nIn an old, obscure corner of my career, I was a Navy Midshipman who spent a month on the USS Zephyr. (Would you have guessed?) I sat on a dock in Alaska, sketching the aft 25mm cannon (below), which I&#8217;d just unsuccessfully shot at some seagulls (thankfully I missed).  I tend to draw each part methodically, and I kept kicking myself as I failed to get the perspective right among the various pieces. Finally I realized that the tide was lowering the ship so fast that the lines were rapidly changing. Not a great place to draw in pen!<br \/>\n<a class=\"lightbox\"  title =\"Aft 25mm\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/files\/2012\/02\/small-Aft-25mm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/files\/2012\/02\/small-Aft-25mm.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Aft 25mm\" width=\"400\" height=\"288\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5846\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/12\/01\/bay-of-fundy-extreme-tides-time-lapse\">Via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada&#8217;s Bay of Fundy features a high tide that can be 50+ feet higher than low tide. Check out this time lapse: In an old, obscure corner of my career, I was a Navy Midshipman who spent a month on the USS Zephyr. (Would you have guessed?) I sat on a dock in Alaska, sketching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17380"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}