{"id":143,"date":"2011-06-22T19:43:53","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T19:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drewphillipsphotography.com\/blog\/?p=143"},"modified":"2014-10-08T14:36:58","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T21:36:58","slug":"pikes-peak-hill-climb-photos-practice-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drewphillipsphotography.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/22\/pikes-peak-hill-climb-photos-practice-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Pikes Peak Hill Climb photos, Practice Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/drewphillipsphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/pikes-peak-day-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1841\" alt=\"pikes-peak-day-1\" src=\"http:\/\/drewphillipsphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/pikes-peak-day-1-680x451.jpg\" width=\"680\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/drewphillipsphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/pikes-peak-day-1-680x451.jpg 680w, https:\/\/drewphillipsphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/pikes-peak-day-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last year I missed out on the first practice session at the Pikes Peak Hill Climb, and after seeing fellow photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/speedhunters.com\/archive\/2010\/06\/23\/in-the-moment-gt-gt-pikes-peak-hill-climb-day-1.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Linhberg Nguyen&#8217;s photos on SpeedHunters.com<\/a>, I made sure to be up on the mountain bright and early for the opening day.<\/p>\n<p>If you stand in the right spot as the sun comes up, the sky and surrounding area turn all sorts of amazing colors, and there&#8217;s a 2-3 minute window where everything looks simply epic. There&#8217;s nothing else like it in motorsports. My favorite photo of the day was Monster Tajima tearing up the mountain with a beautiful Colorado sunrise in the background.<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2011\/06\/22\/2011-pikes-peak-hill-climb-practice-day-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Autoblog.com<\/a> for the entire set of photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I missed out on the first practice session at the Pikes Peak Hill Climb, and after seeing fellow photographer Linhberg Nguyen&#8217;s photos on SpeedHunters.com, I made sure to be up on the mountain bright and early for the opening day. If you stand in the right spot as the sun comes up, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[70,81,82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drewphillipsphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drewphillipsphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drewphillipsphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drewphillipsphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drewphillipsphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drewphillipsphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1842,"href":"https:\/\/drewphillipsphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/1842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drewphillipsphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drewphillipsphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drewphillipsphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}