{"id":4735,"date":"2011-06-04T16:50:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T23:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/?p=4735"},"modified":"2022-01-30T01:00:39","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T17:00:39","slug":"heavenly-arch-on-earthshots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/heavenly-arch-on-earthshots.html","title":{"rendered":"Heavenly Arch on EarthShots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made a spur-of-the-moment trip with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mccarthyphotos.com\">Garry McCarthy<\/a> to do some night-time photography. We were pretty sleep-deprived by the time we were done, jacked up on coffee and then having to drive several hours home as the sun was just rising, but I managed to make four or five images with which I am happy. This one, a self-portrait with the Milky Way rising above a natural stone arch upon which I am standing, was selected as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthshots.org\">EarthShots<\/a> photo of the day today. Garry realized the possibility of an arch-over-arch and really was the one who conceived the overall composition. I added myself to the image to add some scale to the image as well as tension between the star field and the ground. We took a variety of similar frames including many in which the arch is lit but, upon editing the images back home, this is the one that stood out as my sentimental favorite.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Milky Way galaxy arches over Arch Rock on a clear evenin...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=26792\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"The Milky Way galaxy arches over Arch Rock on a clear evening in Joshua Tree National Park\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/stock-photo\/milky-way-arch-rock-night-stars-photo-26792-754390.jpg\" alt=\"The Milky Way galaxy arches over Arch Rock on a clear evening in Joshua Tree National Park\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Milky Way galaxy arches over Arch Rock on a clear evening in Joshua Tree National Park.<br \/>\nImage ID: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=26792\">26792<\/a><br \/>\nLocation: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?city=joshua_tree_national_park&amp;state=california&amp;country=usa\">Joshua Tree National Park<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?state=california&amp;country=usa\">California<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?country=usa\">USA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthshots.org\/2011\/06\/heavenly-arch-by-phillip-colla\/\">EarthShots.org version<\/a> too. The image above is similar in some ways to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/national-wildlife-photo-contest.html\">another arch self portrait I made a few years ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made a spur-of-the-moment trip with Garry McCarthy to do some night-time photography. We were pretty sleep-deprived by the time we were done, jacked up on coffee and then having to drive several hours home as the sun was just rising, but I managed to make four or five images&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,83,176],"tags":[255,260,268,288],"class_list":{"0":"post-4735","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-astrophotography-and-night-scapes","8":"category-icons","9":"category-joshua-tree","10":"tag-icons","11":"tag-joshua-tree-national-park","12":"tag-landscape-astrophotography","13":"tag-natural-arches"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}