{"id":13290,"date":"2019-11-04T06:36:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T11:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/?p=13290"},"modified":"2019-11-01T16:57:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T20:57:48","slug":"take-5-things-are-looking-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/take-5-things-are-looking-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Take 5: Things Are Looking Up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Things are really looking up these days…or at the very least, these photographers are!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week’s Take 5 features photos of the forest canopy, all of which were submitted in the past to our annual Picture This: Your Great Outdoors<\/a> photo contest. The 2019 photo contest is now closed, but we’re hard at work judging this year’s submissions and can’t wait to announce the winner, so stay tuned!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00a9 Lian Bruno<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Looking
\u00a9 Elizabeth Ninemire<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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\u00a9 Brad Millman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Looking
\u00a9 Carrie Coffey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Looking
\u00a9 Elizabeth Ninemire<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Things are really looking up these days…or at the very least, these photographers are! This week’s Take 5 features photos of the forest canopy, all of which were submitted in the past to our annual Picture This: Your Great Outdoors photo contest. The 2019 photo contest is now closed, but we’re hard at work judging […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":13291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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}},"categories":[158],"tags":[83,84],"class_list":["post-13290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-take-5","tag-photo-contest","tag-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2019\/11\/1910LianBruno8035.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3t87A-3sm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3833,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/take-5-patterns\/","url_meta":{"origin":13290,"position":0},"title":"Take 5: Patterns","author":"Rosemary","date":"August 18, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The natural world is full of fascinating patterns, a fact that hasn't escaped the keen eyes of our\u00a0Photo Contest\u00a0participants.\u00a0Have a great shot of your own? 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