{"id":757,"date":"2013-03-22T10:24:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T14:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/?p=757"},"modified":"2013-03-22T21:32:35","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T01:32:35","slug":"mesquite-flat-sand-dunes-blue-sky-at-dusk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/?p=757","title":{"rendered":"Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes &#8211; Blue Sky at Dusk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a variety of dune areas in Death Valley, and experiencing them was a real treat.\u00a0 &#8220;Oasis&#8221; comes to mind &#8230; not in the literal or traditional sense affiliated with water, of course.\u00a0 The terrain throughout DV is incredibly raw and rough, and the dunes standout like islands of smooth, curvy, and serene formations in the middle of the desert chaos.\u00a0 They are beautiful.\u00a0 Sand storms are not uncommon, and we saw several from a long distance.\u00a0 Thankfully we did not get caught in one while visiting Mesquite Flat.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_762\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-762\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-762\" title=\"IMG_4044-3\" src=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4044-31-700x466.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4044-31-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4044-31-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4044-31.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-762\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mesquite Flat Sand Dune at Dusk, Death Valley<\/p><\/div>\n<p>5D MkII, 16-35L f\/2.8 @ 21mm, 3 minutes at f\/11, ISO 500, 10stop ND filter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a variety of dune areas in Death Valley, and experiencing them was a real treat.\u00a0 &#8220;Oasis&#8221; comes to mind &#8230; not in the literal or traditional sense affiliated with water, of course.\u00a0 The terrain throughout DV is incredibly raw and rough, and the dunes standout like islands of smooth, curvy, and serene formations [&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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757"}],"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=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":763,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions\/763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}