{"id":203,"date":"2013-02-08T13:08:27","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T23:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/?p=203"},"modified":"2013-02-08T13:12:38","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T23:12:38","slug":"tales-from-the-racetrack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/tales-from-the-racetrack\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales from the Racetrack."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nHaving seen photographs of this mysterious place, I was excited to make my maiden voyage out to this remote stretch of playa or ancient, dried lake bed.\u00a0 While no one has ever seen the rocks move it is believed a combination of water and wind is needed to move these rocks, some up to 100lbs, across the surface.\u00a0 And in turn, they leave us their tracks.\u00a0 Some straight.\u00a0 Some curved.\u00a0 Some just mind boggling confusing.\u00a0 I spent a night, a very very cold night, and a morning out shooting this magical place.\u00a0 Wondering around by myself in the quietest place one could possibly imagine, surrounded by one of nature&#8217;s wonders was a real treat.\u00a0 As the sun crested the nearby mountain (the playa is at approximately 3700 ft above sea level), the strong backlight made for some wonderful textures in the playa and really accentuated the tracks of some of the rocks.\u00a0 I explored for quite some time letting my mind play with the abstract shapes and textures.\u00a0 This one in particular I found quite interesting.\u00a0\u00a0 Enjoy!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThanks!<br \/>\naF<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_204\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2013-01-17_139bwweb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-204   \" title=\"&quot;Out Of The Darkness&quot;\" alt=\"Racetrack playa, Death Valley\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2013-01-17_139bwweb-204x300.jpg\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2013-01-17_139bwweb-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2013-01-17_139bwweb.jpg 467w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Out Of The Darkness&#8221;<br \/>Racetrack playa, Death Valley<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Having seen photographs of this mysterious place, I was excited to make my maiden voyage out to this remote stretch of playa or ancient, dried lake bed.\u00a0 While no one has ever seen the rocks move it is believed a combination of water and wind is needed to move these rocks, some up to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[11,46,51],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-image-discussion","category-trip-report","tag-california","tag-death-valley","tag-racetrack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}