{"id":4228,"date":"2025-09-17T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=4228"},"modified":"2025-08-29T11:27:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T15:27:30","slug":"last-refuge-of-the-giant-ape-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=4228","title":{"rendered":"Last Refuge Of The Giant Ape Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Kong-Skull-Rock-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Kong-Skull-Rock-1-1024x684.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Kong-Skull-Rock-1-1024x684.png 1024w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Kong-Skull-Rock-1-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Kong-Skull-Rock-1-768x513.png 768w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Kong-Skull-Rock-1.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Is This King Kong&#8217;s Final Resting Place?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Nikon D810, 20.0 sec, f\/2.8, 14mm, ISO 100<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have you ever wondered where King Kong&#8217;e eternal resting place is located? I think I found it at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/jotr\/index.htm\" title=\"\">Joshua Tree National Park<\/a>.  The National Park Service calls it <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/jotr\/planyourvisit\/skullrock.htm\" title=\"\">Skull Rock<\/a><\/em>, but come on, that is King Kong right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I did catch a part of the Milky Way, nut there is too much sky glow from Palm Springs in the image.  I used my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Photography-Videography-Panasonic-Bluetooth-Adjustable\/dp\/B0C422887H\/ref=sr_1_5?crid=17OHDWSVTYKKW&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.npk-oulKBsWBqXvlnh9ba1gEYw4H-XjpHGem2fxRAZQJidB4R_DQDMIo4s1att5rRxtQwBde8JUzgnQNIWgj89xRQ7Efg295zzYarwmeSDC7GUKSXNKVdjc3Q3-zAYpfQtg_d0Y9zh4lTaO2YGg79-g1pBEEunlMJDVg44mIVur9enAIE-ZDy5dPXZl2D6qV0NCA_LslhjQryGvV5qaFW6VJWAoG08zbbjPjWy22D8Q.26qF6Vyc56cLjAimkyxC_LKwJcnzcAClVNC8BHm5xlU&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=Lume%2BCube%2BLED%2BLight%2BPanel&amp;qid=1756479174&amp;sprefix=lume%2Bcube%2Bled%2Blight%2Bpanel%2Caps%2C103&amp;sr=8-5&amp;th=1\" title=\"\">Lume Cube LED Light Panel<\/a> (#NotaSponsor) to light Skull Rock and the foreground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Skull Rock:  <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/mAWGWSNZiHTqQfm6A\" title=\"\">33.997797\u00b0 -116.059444\u00b0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikon D810, 20.0 sec, f\/2.8, 14mm, ISO 100 Have you ever wondered where King Kong&#8217;e&#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":[752,253,931,167,618,753,932],"class_list":["post-4228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","tag-image","tag-joshua-tree-national-park","tag-lune-cube","tag-photo","tag-photography","tag-scott-shaw-photography","tag-skull-rock"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4228","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=4228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4232,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4228\/revisions\/4232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}