{"id":740,"date":"2013-03-16T23:17:21","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T03:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/?p=740"},"modified":"2013-03-18T22:26:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T02:26:24","slug":"milky-way-in-death-valley-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/?p=740","title":{"rendered":"Milky Way in Death Valley National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My bud Carl and I did a photo tour of Death Valley and the Eastern Sierras outside of Bishop, CA.\u00a0 Marc Adamus was our workshop leader, along with two other participants (Pierre from Calgary and Loscar from Pensacola).\u00a0 Marc&#8217;s photo artistry of nature and our country&#8217;s landscape is phenomenal and inspirational, to say the least.\u00a0 Be sure to check out his work (<a title=\"Photography by Marc Adamus\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marcadamus.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.marcadamus.com\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>One of our destinations toward the end of this trip was south and west of the Stovepipe Wells area.\u00a0 We drove what must&#8217;ve been 5-6 miles down a rough, dusty, non-descript road (Saline, as I recall).\u00a0 I was amazed the entire trip at how anything could grow in the Death Valley desert conditions (and not much does!).\u00a0 But, I was especially amazed at the thousands and thousands of Joshua trees we found at the end of this route.\u00a0 They were everywhere &#8230; hearty, plentiful, and a very distinctive looking tree.\u00a0 We visited this area for the express purpose of camping overnight and shooting the trees alongside the Milky Way.\u00a0 The temperature dropped somewhere into the the mid-30&#8217;s overnight, with winds howling up to 50mph.\u00a0 Carl and I were very grateful that Marc outfitted us with a tent that was virtually impervious to the wind.\u00a0 As shooting time approached (3am), the winds started to die down significantly just in time.<\/p>\n<p>Hope you enjoy my take on the scenery.\u00a0 Even though this is not the optimal time of year for seeing a bright Milky Way, it was certainly prevalent and a spectacle.\u00a0 The light on the horizon is light &#8220;pollution&#8221; from Las Vegas, some 200 miles away.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_741\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-741\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-741\" title=\"IMG_4763b\" src=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4763b-700x466.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4763b-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4763b-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4763b.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-741\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joshua Trees Overlooking the Milky Way, Death Valley<\/p><\/div>\n<p>5D MkII, 16-35L f\/2.8 @ 16mm, 20 seconds @ f\/2.8, ISO 6400<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My bud Carl and I did a photo tour of Death Valley and the Eastern Sierras outside of Bishop, CA.\u00a0 Marc Adamus was our workshop leader, along with two other participants (Pierre from Calgary and Loscar from Pensacola).\u00a0 Marc&#8217;s photo artistry of nature and our country&#8217;s landscape is phenomenal and inspirational, to say the least.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26,5,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":746,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions\/746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}