{"id":4522,"date":"2018-10-07T21:26:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T19:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/?p=4522"},"modified":"2018-10-07T21:26:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-07T19:26:19","slug":"20181007-spotting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2018\/10\/07\/20181007-spotting\/","title":{"rendered":"20181007 Spotting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sunpig\/43345596540\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4523\" src=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2018\/pictober-20181007-spotting1.jpg\" alt=\"Binoculars for plane spotting, with Schiphol air control tower in the background\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Abi and I went plane-spotting-spotting today. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vliegtuigenspotter.nl\/spotters-info\/amsterdam-airport-schiphol-ehamams\/\">Schiphol has numerous spotting sites<\/a> dotted around its six (!) runways. I figure they&#8217;ll give me some good sites for taking pics with the new camera, but I wanted to take a look at them first and get a feel for what kind of conditions they&#8217;d work best in. The big official spotters site is to the <em>west<\/em> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/nl.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Polderbaan\">Polderbaan<\/a>, for example, so sunrise will be behind planes taking off.<\/p>\n<p>We had a look at a few sites. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schiphol.nl\/en\/you-and-schiphol\/page\/planespotting\/\">main ones<\/a> are well placed and have amenities. The Polderbaan was <em>busy<\/em>, and there was an ice cream van and a food truck catering to at least a hundred sightseers and photographers; the site at the Buitenveldertbaan is at a McDonalds. We watched a few planes take off from the Polderbaan, and had a milkshake and a coffee at Buitenveldert.<\/p>\n<p>Daily self-care checklist:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sleep: good<\/li>\n<li>Walk: weeeellll, I got out of the house, and we wandered a few hundred meters in the outskirts of Hoofddorp so I&#8217;ll go with a maybe.<\/li>\n<li>Photography: yep<\/li>\n<li>Bass: yes<\/li>\n<li>Snacks: Madame Cocos dark chocolate coconut ball, and a pile of kruidnoten that Alex&#8217;s gaming buddies left behind.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4524\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4524\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sunpig\/43345597810\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4524 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2018\/pictober-20181007-checking.jpg\" alt=\"Woman standing by her bike checking her phone, in front of a hill with top of it the artwork Ver-kijkers by Bertie Kiewiet\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4524\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haarlemmermeeratlas.nl\/kunst\/kunst_locatie\/t\/ver_kijkers\">Ver-kijkers by Bertie Kiewiet<\/a>, with a phone-kijker below.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abi and I went plane-spotting-spotting today. Schiphol has numerous spotting sites dotted around its six (!) runways. I figure they&#8217;ll give me some good sites for taking pics with the new camera, but I wanted to take a look at them first and get a feel for what kind of conditions they&#8217;d work best in. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2018\/10\/07\/20181007-spotting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;20181007 Spotting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4522"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4526,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4522\/revisions\/4526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}