{"id":57,"date":"2012-02-13T20:10:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T02:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.luketingley.com\/blog\/?p=57"},"modified":"2012-02-13T20:20:56","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T02:20:56","slug":"trip-report-southwest-spring-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luketingley.com\/blog\/trip-report-southwest-spring-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Trip Report: Southwest \u2013 Spring 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few images from my Spring 2011 trip to the Southwest. A whirlwind trip covering over 2000 miles on the road, 3 states, 3 National Parks, some backcountry camping, and a lot of bald blue skies! Even though the skies were less than ideal I had a great time showing one of my friends around and scouting some new locations for future visits.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"photo_9\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a class=\"\" title=\"Burning Bright\" href=\"http:\/\/www.luketingley.com\/photo\/burningbright\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 700px; height: auto;\" alt=\"Antelope Canyon, Page, Arizona\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.luketingley.com\/images\/large\/BurningBright-Web.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"extra\"><a class=\"title\" title=\"Burning Bright\" href=\"http:\/\/www.luketingley.com\/photo\/burningbright\/\">Burning Bright<\/a> : <a class=\"print\" title=\"Prints Available\" href=\"http:\/\/www.luketingley.com\/product\/limited-prints\/9\/\">Prints Available<\/a><\/p>\n<p><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">&nbsp;Antelope Canyon is an amazing sight.  The narrow slot canyons of sandstone are breathtaking to walk through.   If you are there at the right time of day, at the right time of year, and in the right place, you will be treated to a spectacular light show as rays of light pierce down into the canyon.  The sandstone glows as if it's on fire for just a few minutes as the sun passes directly overhead.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<figure id=\"photo_39\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a class=\"\" title=\"Whisper\" href=\"http:\/\/www.luketingley.com\/photo\/whisper\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 700px; height: auto;\" alt=\"Page, Arizona\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.luketingley.com\/images\/large\/Whisper-Web.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"extra\"><a class=\"title\" title=\"Whisper\" href=\"http:\/\/www.luketingley.com\/photo\/whisper\/\">Whisper<\/a> : <a class=\"print\" title=\"Prints Available\" href=\"http:\/\/www.luketingley.com\/product\/prints\/39\/\">Prints Available<\/a><\/p>\n<p><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">&nbsp;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"photo_44\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a class=\"\" title=\"Minutes To Midnight\" href=\"http:\/\/www.luketingley.com\/photo\/minutestomidnight\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 700px; height: auto;\" alt=\"Wahweap Hoodoos, Utah, Backcountry, Tents\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.luketingley.com\/images\/large\/Minutes-To-Midnight.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"extra\"><a class=\"title\" title=\"Minutes To Midnight\" href=\"http:\/\/www.luketingley.com\/photo\/minutestomidnight\/\">Minutes To Midnight<\/a> : <a class=\"print\" title=\"Prints Available\" href=\"http:\/\/www.luketingley.com\/product\/prints\/44\/\">Prints Available<\/a><\/p>\n<p><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">We hiked nine miles into the backcountry to some hoodoos I had scouted on a previous trip.  We had some awesome clouds and wind, so I was hopeful I\u2019d get the morning shot that had eluded me on my previous attempt.  Unfortunately by morning, all the clouds had blown away and the shot I had been planning escaped my grasp.<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"photo_47\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a class=\"\" title=\"Chasing The Tempest\" href=\"http:\/\/www.luketingley.com\/photo\/chasingthetempest\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 700px; height: auto;\" alt=\"Storm, Cheyenne, Nevada\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.luketingley.com\/images\/large\/ChasingTheTempest-Web.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"extra\"><a class=\"title\" title=\"Chasing The Tempest\" href=\"http:\/\/www.luketingley.com\/photo\/chasingthetempest\/\">Chasing The Tempest<\/a> : <a class=\"print\" title=\"Prints Available\" href=\"http:\/\/www.luketingley.com\/product\/prints\/47\/\">Prints Available<\/a><\/p>\n<p><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As we were returning to Vegas the dynamic weather I had been looking for all week finally showed up.  It continued to taunt me as we left the area to the point where I finally had to get out of the car and take a quick shot!<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few images from my Spring 2011 trip to the Southwest. A whirlwind trip covering over 2000 miles on the road, 3 states, 3 National Parks, some backcountry camping, and a lot of bald blue skies! Even though the skies were less than ideal I had a great time showing one of my friends around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trip-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luketingley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luketingley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luketingley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luketingley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luketingley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.luketingley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luketingley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luketingley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luketingley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}