{"id":2305,"date":"2017-09-16T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=2305"},"modified":"2017-09-09T17:06:34","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T21:06:34","slug":"black-and-white-stalactites-carlsbad-caverns-nm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=2305","title":{"rendered":"Black and White Stalactites, Carlsbad Caverns NM"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2285\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2285\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/B-and-W-Stalagtites.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2285\" src=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/B-and-W-Stalagtites.jpg\" alt=\"Black and White Stalagtites\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/B-and-W-Stalagtites.jpg 2160w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/B-and-W-Stalagtites-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/B-and-W-Stalagtites-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/B-and-W-Stalagtites-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2285\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black and White Stalactites (click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This image comes from the Big Room at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/cave\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carlsbad Caverns<\/a>. \u00a0The brighter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stalactite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stalactite<\/a> formation on the left is named\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/cave\/planyourvisit\/selfguided_tours.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Chandelier<\/a>. \u00a0<\/em>The Big Room is the one you roam around during the self-guided tour. \u00a0One could spend hours in the Big Room photographing the various formations.<\/p>\n<p>I like the black and white version of this image much better than the color one. \u00a0The black and white image places emphasis on all of the pointy stalactites. \u00a0In the color image, the points kind of get lost within the natural brown and tan colors.<\/p>\n<p>Carlsbad Caverns: N32 10 38.97 W104 26 34.32<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This image comes from the Big Room at Carlsbad Caverns. \u00a0The brighter\u00a0stalactite formation on the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[568,107,613,435],"class_list":["post-2305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-mexico","tag-carlsbad-caverns","tag-new-mexico","tag-stalagtites","tag-white"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2305"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2361,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions\/2361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}