{"id":4253,"date":"2025-10-08T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=4253"},"modified":"2025-09-04T16:02:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T20:02:57","slug":"fooled-into-a-walk-through-the-doom-and-gloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=4253","title":{"rendered":"Fooled Into A Walk Through The Doom And Gloom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Congaree-Walk.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"603\" src=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Congaree-Walk-1024x603.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Congaree-Walk-1024x603.png 1024w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Congaree-Walk-300x177.png 300w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Congaree-Walk-768x452.png 768w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Congaree-Walk.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Gloomy Boardwalk Through The Woods<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Nikon D810, 1\/3 sec, f\/9.0, 32mm, ISO 200<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am not going to even pretend that I know why <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/cong\/index.htm\" title=\"\">Congaree National Park<\/a> is a national park.  It is a very hard location to photograph on a sunny day because of all of the shadows and bright spots.  If you are looking to visit all of the National Parks, you can make this one a drive by and allocate about an hour for your visit.  Seriously&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unless you win the lottery to visit during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/cong\/fireflies.htm\" title=\"\">Synchronous Fireflies Viewing Event<\/a>.  In that case, allocate a full evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congaree National Park: <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/Zs1a7wY7xkPXVGew9\" title=\"\">33.830161\u00b0 -80.822565\u00b0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikon D810, 1\/3 sec, f\/9.0, 32mm, ISO 200 I am not going to even pretend&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[938,752,167,618,753,306],"class_list":["post-4253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-carolina","tag-congaree-national-park","tag-image","tag-photo","tag-photography","tag-scott-shaw-photography","tag-south-carolina"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4253","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=4253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4254,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4253\/revisions\/4254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}