{"id":12365,"date":"2014-01-02T09:56:17","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T16:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=12365"},"modified":"2014-01-03T06:23:10","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T13:23:10","slug":"top-shots-2013-thorntonweather-coms-top-photos-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/colorado-weather\/top-shots-2013-thorntonweather-coms-top-photos-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Shots 2013: ThorntonWeather.com\u2019s top photos of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The best photos of 2013 as seen through ThorntonWeather.com's lenses.  \" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-wmGa5awQXFg\/Ur2WslrxG4I\/AAAAAAAABPg\/bNw6-c6Es7w\/s300\/TopShots.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The best photos of 2013 as seen through ThorntonWeather.com&#8217;s lenses. View the slideshow below.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Colorado\u2019s weather and scenery can certainly be dramatic and the past year has been no different.\u00a0 Armed with our camera, we captured hundreds of images and shared them with our readers.<\/p>\n<p>While we are entirely amateur photographers, sometimes Colorado makes it hard to take a bad picture.\u00a0 Over the course of 2013 we took hundreds of photos, many of which were shared with you on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ThorntonWeather\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"plus.google.com\/+thorntonweather\" target=\"_blank\">Google+<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thorntonweather\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Picking which of the images we liked the best was not easy.\u00a0 The subject matter ranged from weather to wildlife to expansive landscapes and even heavenly bodies.<\/p>\n<p>As we sorted through we couldn\u2019t help but notice the lack of real weather drama in the photos we took.\u00a0 While there were wildfires to our south and floods to the north, Thornton managed to escape the year relatively unscathed from Mother Nature\u2019s wrath.<\/p>\n<p>We also were unable to do any real storm chasing so severe weather imagery was lacking.\u00a0 Hopefully that can be rectified in 2014.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>When all was said and done we came up with 25 images that we thought were our best photos of the year.\u00a0 You can view them in the slideshow below.\u00a0 Leave a comment here or on our social media pages and let us know what you think.<\/p>\n<p>Remember too that we love seeing your photos so be sure to share them with us!<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"600\" height=\"400\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/static.googleusercontent.com\/external_content\/picasaweb.googleusercontent.com\/slideshow.swf\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;captions=1&amp;noautoplay=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feat=flashalbum&amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;feed=https%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2F108306177534978229224%2Falbumid%2F5962075200148020049%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26authkey%3DGv1sRgCLGygeix6M6vuwE%26hl%3Den_US\" \/><param name=\"pluginspage\" value=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" \/><embed width=\"600\" height=\"400\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"https:\/\/static.googleusercontent.com\/external_content\/picasaweb.googleusercontent.com\/slideshow.swf\" flashvars=\"host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;captions=1&amp;noautoplay=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feat=flashalbum&amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;feed=https%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2F108306177534978229224%2Falbumid%2F5962075200148020049%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26authkey%3DGv1sRgCLGygeix6M6vuwE%26hl%3Den_US\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado\u2019s weather and scenery can certainly be dramatic and the past year has been no different.\u00a0 Armed with our camera, we captured hundreds of images and shared them with our readers. While we are entirely amateur photographers, sometimes Colorado makes it hard to take a bad picture.\u00a0 Over the course of 2013 we took hundreds &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/colorado-weather\/top-shots-2013-thorntonweather-coms-top-photos-of-the-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Top Shots 2013: ThorntonWeather.com\u2019s top photos of the year<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[661],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12365"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12411,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12365\/revisions\/12411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}