{"id":36430,"date":"2025-03-01T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T05:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=36430"},"modified":"2025-03-01T00:04:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T05:04:49","slug":"winter-great-sand-dunes-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=36430","title":{"rendered":"Winter, Great Sand Dunes National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_36431\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/080228-Deer-Great-Sand-Dunes-5D-6684-w8-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36431\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36431\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/080228-Deer-Great-Sand-Dunes-5D-6684-w8-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/080228-Deer-Great-Sand-Dunes-5D-6684-w8-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/080228-Deer-Great-Sand-Dunes-5D-6684-w8-1-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/080228-Deer-Great-Sand-Dunes-5D-6684-w8-1-768x406.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/080228-Deer-Great-Sand-Dunes-5D-6684-w8-1-500x264.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36431\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deer, Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I usually prefer to go to Colorado in the fall to create landscape images, but I needed to be in Denver in early March anyway. So I headed south to the Great Sand Dunes and arrived February 28, 2008.\u00a0 The temperature was 44 degrees, so pretty pleasant for photography. It can be much colder in late February.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36432\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/080228-Great-Sand-Dunes-5D-6666-w7-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36432\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/080228-Great-Sand-Dunes-5D-6666-w7-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/080228-Great-Sand-Dunes-5D-6666-w7-1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/080228-Great-Sand-Dunes-5D-6666-w7-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/080228-Great-Sand-Dunes-5D-6666-w7-1-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36432\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great Sand Dunes<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the middle of the day the sand is quite light in tone, like the sand you would see in a sandbox. But as the sun get lower and lower the dunes get darker. At the end of the day they can look chocolate brown.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36433\" style=\"width: 543px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/080228-Great-Sand-Dunes-5D-6712-w8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36433\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/080228-Great-Sand-Dunes-5D-6712-w8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/080228-Great-Sand-Dunes-5D-6712-w8.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/080228-Great-Sand-Dunes-5D-6712-w8-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36433\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great Sand Dunes and Mt. Herard right before sunset.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One of the nice things about winter is the absence of human tracks in the sand.\u00a0 It is a good idea to plan your walking path so your own footprints aren&#8217;t in the photo, unless, of course, you want them in the photo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I usually prefer to go to Colorado in the fall to create landscape images, but I needed to be in Denver in early March anyway. So I headed south to the Great Sand Dunes and arrived February 28, 2008.\u00a0 The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=36430\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36430","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=36430"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36438,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36430\/revisions\/36438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}