{"id":24227,"date":"2019-05-06T13:24:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T18:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=24227"},"modified":"2019-05-06T14:12:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T19:12:19","slug":"favorite-photo-april-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=24227","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Photo, April 23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/110423-Arches-Night-5D3-8202-w7.jpg\" alt=\"Arches National Park at Twilight\" class=\"wp-image-4037\"\/><figcaption>Park Avenue at Twilight, Arches National Park, Utah. April 23, 2011.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It was late in the afternoon when I arrived in Moab Utah, and even later when I drove in to Arches National Park. I just kept saying &#8220;Oh, Wow!&#8221; and and driving around taking pictures.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n<p>It was late twilight when I set up my camera in the parking lot at the south end of Park Avenue.  I used a 24mm wide angle lens, set the ISO to 400, the lens aperture to f\/8 and the shutter speed to 30 seconds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I got clouds streaking overhead and stars in sky. It was 8:49 pm, 47 minutes after sunset. You can see the distinctive outline of Queen Nefertiti in the lower right corner of the photo.  This is my favorite photo for this date. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\nYou know what I am going to say next. Arches is a great place to take pictures.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was having a great time. It was the beginning of a little less than 48 hours (and that includes two nights sleep) to do 6 spectacular parks.  It was barely enough time to sample each of them, must less explore any one of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It all came about because I had four days to drive from Denver to the San Francisco Bay Area. I got to thinking about my route and all of the wonderful southern Utah parks I have read so much about.  So instead of taking I-80 across the country, I decided on a route across southern Utah. That would give me a little less than 2 days to get a glimpse of the parks. Two days was better than nothing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/110423-desert-flower-5D-8101-w7-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24230\"\/><figcaption>Desert Flower, Utah. April 23, 2011.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier in the day, driving along the Colorado River, I spotted some desert flowers and stopped to take pictures. This is my second place favorite image for this date.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=20584\">Series: Favorite Photos by Date<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c\u00c2\u00a0all about this series<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/arch\/index.htm\">Arches National Park<\/a><\/p>\n<p><br \/><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n\n<p><!--EndFragment--><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was late in the afternoon when I arrived in Moab Utah, and even later when I drove in to Arches National Park. I just kept saying &#8220;Oh, Wow!&#8221; and and driving around taking pictures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-photo-locations","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24227"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24235,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24227\/revisions\/24235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}