{"id":1164,"date":"2010-01-18T15:33:40","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T20:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2010-01-18T15:33:40","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T20:33:40","slug":"sunset-at-the-buffalo-ridge-wind-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2010\/01\/18\/sunset-at-the-buffalo-ridge-wind-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunset at the Buffalo Ridge wind farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nicmcphee\/4283634327\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Sunset at the Buffalo Ridge wind farm\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2686\/4283634327_a806c5f3b6.jpg?resize=500%2C327\" title=\"Sunset at the Buffalo Ridge wind farm\" width=\"500\" height=\"327\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunset at the Buffalo Ridge wind farm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last week I drove to a workshop in Madison, SD, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kklamberty\/\">Kristin Lamberty<\/a> (one of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.morris.umn.edu\/academic\/csci\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Computer Science colleagues<\/a> here at UMM).  On the way, we went south on US 75, along the east side of the Buffalo Ridge wind farm, and there was a really gorgeous sunset behind them as we came into Lake Benton, MN.<\/p>\n<p>KK was kind enough to let me stop and take some photos.  This is one :-).<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t actually messed with the colors here, except for deliberately underexposing the photo in the first place to saturate the colors.  It really was a <em>very<\/em> cool sunset.<\/p>\n\n\t<div class=\"st-post-tags \">\n\tTags: <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/art\/\" title=\"Art\">Art<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/clouds\/\" title=\"clouds\">clouds<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/electricity\/\" title=\"electricity\">electricity<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/my-photography\/\" title=\"my photography\">my photography<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/photography\/\" title=\"Photography\">Photography<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/power-generation\/\" title=\"power generation\">power generation<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/sky\/\" title=\"sky\">sky<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/sunset\/\" title=\"sunset\">sunset<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/sustainable-energy\/\" title=\"sustainable energy\">sustainable energy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/travel\/\" title=\"travel\">travel<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/wind-farm\/\" title=\"wind farm\">wind farm<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/wind-turbines\/\" title=\"wind turbines\">wind turbines<\/a><br \/><\/div>\n\n\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2010\/01\/23\/traveling-through-time-and-figuring-out-a-few-new-things-about-raw\/\" title=\"Traveling through time (and figuring out a few new things about RAW) (23 Jan 10)\">Traveling through time (and figuring out a few new things about RAW)<\/a> (0)<\/li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/01\/28\/right-in-the-thick-of-it\/\" title=\"Right in the thick of it (28 Jan 08)\">Right in the thick of it<\/a> (0)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A truly gorgeous sunset behind the Buffalo Ridge wind farm in SE Minnesota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[21,17,11,20,19],"tags":[870,498,499,65,869,500,497,494,501,38,495,496],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-iM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1167,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2010\/01\/23\/traveling-through-time-and-figuring-out-a-few-new-things-about-raw\/","url_meta":{"origin":1164,"position":0},"title":"Traveling through time (and figuring out a few new things about RAW)","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"23 Jan 10","format":false,"excerpt":"Another from that gorgeous sunset behind the wind farm at Buffalo Ridge (near Lake Benton, MN). 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