{"id":4268,"date":"2025-10-15T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=4268"},"modified":"2025-09-19T20:12:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T00:12:40","slug":"unconditional-sanctuary-in-the-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=4268","title":{"rendered":"Unconditional Sanctuary In The Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Lauren-Pratts-Little-Chapel.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Lauren-Pratts-Little-Chapel-1024x684.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Lauren-Pratts-Little-Chapel-1024x684.png 1024w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Lauren-Pratts-Little-Chapel-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Lauren-Pratts-Little-Chapel-768x513.png 768w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Lauren-Pratts-Little-Chapel.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Loren Pratt&#8217;s Little Chapel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Nikon D810, 2.5 sec, f\/4.0, 24mm, ISO 400<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the spirit of the hardest part of photography is <em>being there<\/em>, it took me a while to get this image.  I drove by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/news\/local\/arizona-best-reads\/2019\/05\/12\/pause-rest-worship-chapel-highway-outside-yuma-offers-retreat-loren-cecil-pratt\/3642615002\/\" title=\"\">Loren Pratt&#8217;s Little Chapel<\/a> numerous times over the course of two weeks, but I was either on my way to meetings, or dog-a**ed tired from a full fay\/evening of meetings.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I finally got a day off and rose early to do some sunrise photography.  I lit the inside of the chapel with my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Photography-Videography-Panasonic-Bluetooth-Adjustable\/dp\/B0C422887H\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=6AGVGLHYVFI5&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Jd_BewenTeOPgmDK8BS65FKfvYAEf-_p61pbJDyg4A8AmE47SruFckhtsQnHhmL_RPFnDcFaPzq3oUbUpf-ywHfB8ZWUABfz6Sr8WXVTZS4S5DatTWLdguQlhuydnMWyn9e5suHZYMYTZKPmrftQEjJF3bYpAZlgEYULnhUmMlQNXgTH73qsava-FS1MeeDAhFjTwKvUjlOsSTg8Q3LD0E4LD_Lcyn4Ahc9luDQGLnI.R31N2InVZ4Myb0Rs7wrSkX9qInLYVmSgzbajmnUPtVs&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=lume%2Bcube&amp;qid=1758323978&amp;sprefix=Lume%2BCube%2Caps%2C120&amp;sr=8-1&amp;th=1\" title=\"\">Lume Cube LED Light Panel<\/a> (#notsponsored) and used my flashlight to paint the outside of the church (this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalparksatnight.com\" title=\"\">website<\/a> has great light painting tips) .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Loren Pratt&#8217;s Little Chapel: <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/jWZV3FcbYz52iSvq9\" title=\"\">32.765692\u00b0 -114.410250\u00b0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikon D810, 2.5 sec, f\/4.0, 24mm, ISO 400 In the spirit of the hardest part&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[552],"tags":[677,752,941,167,618,753,940],"class_list":["post-4268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","tag-arizona","tag-image","tag-loren-pratts-little-chapel","tag-photo","tag-photography","tag-scott-shaw-photography","tag-yuma"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4268","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=4268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4270,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4268\/revisions\/4270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}