{"id":597,"date":"2015-05-08T12:51:11","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T22:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/?p=597"},"modified":"2015-05-08T12:51:11","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T22:51:11","slug":"the-great-dunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/the-great-dunes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Dunes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nBack in August 2014 I had the opportunity to meet a friend from college and head down to the Great Sand Dunes National Park.\u00a0 Arriving late in the afternoon on our first day we quickly decided to change our plans and spend both nights camped at this awesome location.\u00a0 The tallest dunes in the US (~700&#8242;) up against the almost 14k foot Sangre De Cristo Mountains made for a dramatic and beautiful location.\u00a0 Given the craziness that we witnessed the day before (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/great-sand-dunes-national-park-fireworks\/\" target=\"_blank\">High Voltage<\/a>) I was after more of an overview shot of the dunes as they leap out of the plain below and up against the impressive peaks.\u00a0\u00a0 After shooting sunrise up in the dunes that morning under some pretty wonderful light the day quickly went overcast and dreary.\u00a0 As the afternoon went on I noticed a slight opportunity to the west across the San Luis Valley.\u00a0 Finding a good spot along the road the waiting game began.\u00a0 A familiar one with landscape photographers this was no different, except for the proximity to comforts.\u00a0 The waiting game looked like it was going to pay off as light started to dapple across the grasses below the dunes.\u00a0 But not quite where it was needed.\u00a0 Then, as photographer&#8217;s tell stories of, the beam of light moved up over the dunes, for a mere 3 minutes.\u00a0 I rattled off a number of panoramas and then it was gone for the afternoon.\u00a0 Moments like this are what help keep the photographic ambition alive and chasing those moments. Glad I was there \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nEnjoy!<br \/>\naF<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_530\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2014-08-19_442web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-530 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2014-08-19_442web-300x107.jpg\" alt=\"The Great Sand Dunes under late afternoon light and dramatic skies\" width=\"300\" height=\"107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2014-08-19_442web-300x107.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2014-08-19_442web-700x249.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2014-08-19_442web-200x71.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/2014-08-19_442web.jpg 1033w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;The Great Dunes&#8221; (unreleased)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Back in August 2014 I had the opportunity to meet a friend from college and head down to the Great Sand Dunes National Park.\u00a0 Arriving late in the afternoon on our first day we quickly decided to change our plans and spend both nights camped at this awesome location.\u00a0 The tallest dunes in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[194,196,53,195],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-image-discussion","category-trip-report","tag-colorado","tag-great-sand-dunes-national-park","tag-panorama","tag-sand-dunes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","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=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afeinbergphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}