{"id":749,"date":"2013-03-18T22:14:22","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T02:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/?p=749"},"modified":"2013-03-18T22:27:03","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T02:27:03","slug":"dappled-sunlight-on-mount-tom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/?p=749","title":{"rendered":"Dappled Sunlight on Mount Tom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Death Valley and its surrounding desert area to the west \/ north west butts up against the eastern slopes of the Sierra Mountains.\u00a0 One extreme &#8211; dry, parched desert &#8211; gives way to the other &#8211; moist, snow capped mountains with ever changing cloud formations.\u00a0 This is an ecosystem that is hard to explain, and the weather patterns caused by colliding air masses creates a volatile yet beautiful juxtaposition.<\/p>\n<p>This image was taken early morning with howling winds and temperatures near 30F, following an evening&#8217;s snow on Mount Tom near Mammoth, CA.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_751\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-751\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-751\" title=\"IMG_4693bw2\" src=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4693bw2-700x560.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4693bw2-700x560.jpg 700w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4693bw2-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4693bw2.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-751\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mount Tom in B&amp;W, Eastern Sierras<\/p><\/div>\n<p>5D MkII, 70-200L f\/4 at 75mm, 1\/250th sec @ f\/18, ISO 800<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death Valley and its surrounding desert area to the west \/ north west butts up against the eastern slopes of the Sierra Mountains.\u00a0 One extreme &#8211; dry, parched desert &#8211; gives way to the other &#8211; moist, snow capped mountains with ever changing cloud formations.\u00a0 This is an ecosystem that is hard to explain, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749"}],"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=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}