{"id":3656,"date":"2025-01-15T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=3656"},"modified":"2024-11-26T10:35:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T15:35:12","slug":"drooping-sunflowers-in-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=3656","title":{"rendered":"Drooping Sunflowers in the Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Droopy-Sunflowers.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Droopy-Sunflowers-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3655\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Droopy-Sunflowers-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Droopy-Sunflowers-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Droopy-Sunflowers-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Droopy-Sunflowers.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Drooping Sunflowers<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Nikon D810, 1\/15 sec, f\/7.1, ISO 200<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are drooping sunflowers at the <a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/publiclands\/central\/sunflowers.aspx\" title=\"\">McKee-Beshers Wildlife Management Area <\/a>annual sunflower planting. I was traveling at the time of the peak bloom, so I missed the fields full of rows upon rows of sunflowers. I also missed the peak crowd of photographers shooting over each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check the <a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/publiclands\/central\/sunflowers.aspx\" title=\"\">McKee Beshers <\/a>website in the spring, it will tell you when the sunflowers were planted. Once planted, check the website frequently for updates. Pro tips: 1) bring a wagon to tote your gear, 2) bring a small ladder or step stool so that you can shoot the tops of the sunflowers, they do get tall!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McKee-Beshers Wildlife Management Area: <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/xgRDT2sepBJZcCTu9\" title=\"\">39.084801\u00b0 -77.400644\u00b0&nbsp;<\/a><br>(check webpage for actual location of this year\u2019s plantings)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikon D810, 1\/15 sec, f\/7.1, ISO 200 Here are drooping sunflowers at the McKee-Beshers Wildlife&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[549],"tags":[752,850,101,849,167,618,753,309],"class_list":["post-3656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maryland","tag-image","tag-maryland","tag-mckee-beshers","tag-mckee-beshers-wildlife-management-area","tag-photo","tag-photography","tag-scott-shaw-photography","tag-sunflower"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656","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=3656"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3664,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656\/revisions\/3664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}