{"id":3717,"date":"2025-02-17T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=3717"},"modified":"2025-01-22T09:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T14:30:12","slug":"lurking-dinosaur-hide-and-seek-in-the-cacti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=3717","title":{"rendered":"Lurking Dinosaur Hide-and-Seek in the Cacti"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Dino-Rampage.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"918\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Dino-Rampage-918x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3706\" style=\"width:614px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Dino-Rampage-918x1024.jpg 918w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Dino-Rampage-269x300.jpg 269w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Dino-Rampage-768x857.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Dino-Rampage.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 918px) 100vw, 918px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Nikon D810, 1\/400, f\/8.0, 100mm, ISO 200<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Except for the final sunrise, I did not see a single cloud in the sky during my my three day visit to Borrego Springs, CA, photographing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Galleta_Meadows_Estate\">Galleta Meadows Estate<\/a>\u00a0and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.photographamerica.com\/store\/p87\/082_-_Anza-Borrego_Desert_Landscapes%2C_California.html\">Anza-Borrego Desert Landscapes<\/a>.  The lack of clouds in the sky forced me to crop my images much tighter than I would have preferred.  I think this took away a lot of interest from the images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Borrego Springs:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/rVLUtJeNe2aVd8d9A\">33.256572\u00b0 -116.375064\u00b0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikon D810, 1\/400, f\/8.0, 100mm, ISO 200 Except for the final sunrise, I did not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[539],"tags":[854,856,853,855,752,167,618,753],"class_list":["post-3717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","tag-anza-borrego-state-park","tag-borrego-springs","tag-california","tag-galleta-meadows-estate","tag-image","tag-photo","tag-photography","tag-scott-shaw-photography"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.8 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" 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