{"id":242,"date":"2013-04-01T10:16:56","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T20:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/?p=242"},"modified":"2013-04-01T10:16:56","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T20:16:56","slug":"archesnationalparkmilkyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/archesnationalparkmilkyway\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbey&#8217;s Country II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nAfter not returning back to my car from the previous night&#8217;s shooting until after 11pm I knew the morning was going to arrive too quickly.\u00a0 Packed my car and headed off for the 45 min drive to my next location, Arches National Park.\u00a0 For whatever reason I knew I should photograph Arches but internally I wasn&#8217;t overly excited.\u00a0 Of course this changed when I woke up in the parking lot about an hour before sunrise and saw the landscape before me.\u00a0 In a serendipitous offering the entire Milky Way was arching over the exact landscape I was walking toward.\u00a0 Brilliant!\u00a0 I got about 30ft from the car before my camera bag was already on the ground and camera being prepared for the first photograph of the day.\u00a0 While the sky still felt dark the slight glow of dawn was already apparent through the camera&#8217;s sensitive settings.\u00a0 With sunrise still over 45 min away I was amazed at what could be seen.\u00a0 Over on the far right was the distant glow from the town of Moab.\u00a0 I made a number of panoramas of the scene before me and then off to my intended destination for the morning.\u00a0 Now if every day could start like this&#8230;\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThanks!<br \/>\naF<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_243\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013-03-11_421web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-243\" alt=\"Milky Way archs over Arches National Park\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013-03-11_421web-300x125.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013-03-11_421web-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013-03-11_421web-700x293.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013-03-11_421web-200x83.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013-03-11_421web.jpg 1033w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Abbey&#8217;s Country II&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; After not returning back to my car from the previous night&#8217;s shooting until after 11pm I knew the morning was going to arrive too quickly.\u00a0 Packed my car and headed off for the 45 min drive to my next location, Arches National Park.\u00a0 For whatever reason I knew I should photograph Arches but internally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[54,59,48,55],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-image-discussion","category-trip-report","tag-arches-national-park","tag-milky-way","tag-stars","tag-utah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","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=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}