{"id":3730,"date":"2025-02-24T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=3730"},"modified":"2025-01-27T11:55:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T16:55:37","slug":"beware-dancing-giants-in-the-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=3730","title":{"rendered":"Beware Dancing Giants In The Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Dueling-Dinos-Daylight.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Dueling-Dinos-Daylight-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3724\" style=\"width:639px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Dueling-Dinos-Daylight-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Dueling-Dinos-Daylight-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Dueling-Dinos-Daylight-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Dueling-Dinos-Daylight.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Nikon D810, 1\/100 sec, f\/8.0, 120mm, ISO 200<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was my grandsons favorite metal sculpture at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Galleta_Meadows_Estate\">Galleta Meadows Estate<\/a>\u00a0which has over 130 such metal art sculptures.  Some clouds in the sky, and fewer bird droppings on the sculpture, would have improved the image.  Photoshops <em><a href=\"https:\/\/helpx.adobe.com\/photoshop\/using\/remove-tool.html\" title=\"\">Remove<\/a><\/em> tool would take care of many of those droppings, but the ones along the edge did not clean up well.  My philosophy while editing these images was that if I could not remove all the droppings, I would not remove any of the droppings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\/100 sec, f\/8.0, 120mm, ISO 200 This was my grandsons favorite metal sculpture&#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-3730","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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3730","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=3730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3731,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3730\/revisions\/3731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}