{"id":957,"date":"2013-06-16T15:33:15","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T20:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/?p=957"},"modified":"2018-07-26T18:39:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T23:39:22","slug":"window-to-the-past-goodspeed-opera-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/2013\/06\/window-to-the-past-goodspeed-opera-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Window To The Past &#8211; Goodspeed Opera House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.relayforlife.org\/southeasternct\/\" target=\"_blank\">Relay For Life<\/a><\/strong> keeping me busy up until last weekend, I&#8217;ve fallen behind on weekly photos. \u00a0Then a couple days ago I noticed on Facebook that the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EastHaddamSwingBridge\" target=\"_blank\">East Haddam Swing Bridge<\/a><\/strong> was having a birthday. \u00a0It opened 100 years ago on June 13th, 1913. \u00a0The old photo I used below is from that day in 1913 when the bridge opened, and it shows a very festive Goodspeed Opera house all decked out for the opening. \u00a0Not to mention it was Flag Day as well.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a great photo on their facebook page of someone paying a toll to pass over the bridge. \u00a0I was originally planning to use that photo, but since the bridge has no sidewalk for pedestrians I would have to be on the bridge in traffic to replicate the photo. \u00a0So the Goodspeed pic was used instead!<\/p>\n<h3>Weekly Photo &#8211; Window To The Past of the Goodspeed Opera House (1913)<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/portfolio.richarsenault.com\/Projects\/Windows-To-The-Past\/17920018_bjJWH3#!i=2578578912&amp;k=nRXMJnS&amp;lb=1&amp;s=X2\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/portfolio.richarsenault.com\/Projects\/Windows-To-The-Past\/i-nRXMJnS\/0\/XL\/East-Haddam-Goodspeed-1913-2013-XL.jpg\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">How It&#8217;s Made<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here is a &#8220;How It&#8217;s Made&#8221; image showing the source photos. \u00a0In the top-left you can see me holding the print trying to get everything lined up to find the right spot to take the photo. \u00a0Then on the top-right is the the shot used for the background. \u00a0Usually I use the source shot from holding the old photo when merging them together, but this time that was only used to find the location &#8211; I used a jpg copy of the old photo to overlay on top of the background.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/portfolio.richarsenault.com\/Projects\/Windows-To-The-Past\/17920018_bjJWH3#!i=2578579678&amp;k=qMbhKzD&amp;lb=1&amp;s=X3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/portfolio.richarsenault.com\/Projects\/Windows-To-The-Past\/i-qMbhKzD\/0\/X2\/East-Haddam-Goodspeed-1913-2013-How-Its-Made-X2.jpg\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/2013\/06\/window-to-the-past-goodspeed-opera-house\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-content\/plugins\/thumbnail-for-excerpts\/tfe_no_thumb.png\" class=\"alignleft wp-post-image tfe\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><p>With the Relay For Life keeping me busy up until last weekend, I&#8217;ve fallen behind on weekly photos. \u00a0Then a couple days ago I noticed on Facebook that the East Haddam Swing Bridge was having a birthday. \u00a0It opened 100 years ago on June 13th, 1913. \u00a0The old photo I used below is from that day in 1913 when the bridge opened, and it shows a very festive Goodspeed Opera house all decked out for the opening. \u00a0Not to mention [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,54],"tags":[28,45,29],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-windows-to-the-past","tag-east-haddam","tag-window-to-the-past","tag-lenssigma-10-20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":965,"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions\/965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}