{"id":201,"date":"2020-01-11T22:32:07","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T22:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/?p=201"},"modified":"2026-02-17T11:03:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:03:54","slug":"2020-1-11-lake-lanier-62418","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/?p=201","title":{"rendered":"Lake Lanier landscapes – 6\/24\/18"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It was the last day of my vacation week. I was procrastinating but still trying to squeeze in a bit more photography and wanted to go somewhere new. I had never actually been to Lake Lanier, although now I have tried to drive there several times. But as it turns out, you have to pay for almost everywhere. As a rule I try to not go places that require payment, I don\u2019t really have a good reason for this. Just never liked the idea of paying for parking or entrance fees. I like nature being enjoyed at just the cost of nature. I also get the point that places like state parks charge so they can upkeep it, which makes sense. Although maybe that should be a tax that everyone pays. I know different states handle things differently, and there are a few states that have state level parks for free. I absolutely want to travel to these places. <\/p>\n

But Georgia is not one of these places. And paying money to go somewhere puts a certain amount of pressure, it\u2019s not just time you\u2019re sinking into something but there is an actual monetary cost associated with it. And as in photography there\u2019s a good chance you could make the trip out, and walk away with no good pictures only good experience. I try to minimize the actual cash costs. Obviously this doesn\u2019t work for everywhere, but especially when it\u2019s just a quick trip. Overall we were here at the lake probably less than an hour. Thankfully it was early on a Sunday and not many people came to this one spot that has free parking, very small area. Honestly as this was more than a year ago, wouldn\u2019t be surprised to find that it\u2019s a pay to park spot now. As is every other place I\u2019ve found at Lake Lanier.<\/p>\n

But it was a nice little spot to visit, took some photos of the water and a few other things that interested me.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Canon T3i w\/ 18-55mm – 1\/1000 Sec – F4 – 18mm – ISO 100<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Took a couple of shots of these floating barrels, probably there to keep boats from coming into the smaller portion of this particular spread of the lake.<\/p>\n

I got a little closer and did another shot of these, really like the color orange and how blue the sky was with a bit of color adjustment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Canon T3i w\/ 18-55mm – 1\/1600 Sec – F5 – 18mm – ISO 100<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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There was also a sign that I took a picture of, I liked the way the colors of the sign stood out against all the green around it. I also make it black and white, just to play around with that in photoshop. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Canon T3i w\/18-55mm – 1\/100 Sec – F16 – 55mm – ISO 4000<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Same settings as previous picture lol, just edited in photoshop. Not the cleanest, looking back at it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Canon T3i w\/18-55mm – 1\/500 Sec – F5.6 – 49mm – ISO 100<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Back in the car, this was interesting with all the rocks coming to meet the water.<\/p>\n

One last shot I did I really liked the composition of, even if I didn\u2019t know that word back then. It was a series of 3 as these boats came passed each other. With an island in the background. I edited it into black and white for effect in the waves.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Canon T3i w\/ 75-300mm – 1\/500 Sec – F6.3 – 300mm – ISO 100<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was the last day of my vacation week. I was procrastinating but still trying to squeeze in a bit more photography and wanted to go somewhere new. I had never actually been to Lake Lanier, although now I have tried to drive there several times. But as it turns out, you have to pay […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1863,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/1863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbward.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}