{"id":2079,"date":"2013-08-02T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/?p=2079"},"modified":"2013-08-02T09:00:09","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T14:00:09","slug":"photo-friday-dusk-descends-on-kawuneeche-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/2013\/08\/02\/photo-friday-dusk-descends-on-kawuneeche-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Friday: Dusk Descends on Kawuneeche Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2080\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2080\" style=\"width: 711px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journeyoflight.com\/photo\/dusk-descends-on-kawuneeche-valley\/colorado\/0\/10\/12\/0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_2036-kawuneeche-valley-v-rmnp.jpg\" alt=\"Dusk Descends on Kawuneeche Valley\" width=\"711\" height=\"900\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2080\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2080\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On a quiet evening in mid-July wildflowers bloom near a stream as the sun sets behind the Never Summer Range in western Rocky Mountain National Park.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Kawuneeche Valley is a marshy meadow area on the western side of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journeyoflight.com\/photo-gallery\/Rocky%20Mountain%20National%20Park\" target=\"_blank\">Rocky Mountain National Park<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journeyoflight.com\/photo-gallery\/Colorado\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado<\/a>.  In the native Arapaho language Kawuneeche means &#8220;valley of the coyote&#8221; and indeed, many animals are found traveling through the valley.  On this still July evening, there was a herd of elk that had quietly moved through and were eating on the trail.  Not wanting to disturb them too much I kindly asked them to move as I slowly walked by.  They obliged and I was on my way, as the last remnants of light illuminated the western edge of the clouds casting a dull glow across the meadow.<\/p>\n<p>Technical Details:<br \/>\nCanon 5D Mark II, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhphotovideo.com\/c\/product\/606804-USA\/Canon_3552B002_TS_E_24mm_f_3_5L_II.html\/BI\/9044\/KBID\/10607\" target=\"_blank\">24mm TS-E f\/3.5L<\/a>, .6s, f\/11, 3-stop Singh-Ray Soft Grad, 3 Photos Stitched<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.journeyoflight.com\/photo-gallery\/Rocky%20Mountain%20National%20Park\" target=\"_blank\">Rocky Mountain National Park<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journeyoflight.com\/photo-gallery\/Colorado\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kawuneeche Valley is a marshy meadow area on the western side of Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. In the native Arapaho language Kawuneeche means &#8220;valley of the coyote&#8221; and indeed, many animals are found traveling through the valley. On this still July evening, there was a herd of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,102,105,119,126,128,130,29,137,36,140,48,51,56],"tags":[155,161,166],"class_list":["post-2079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clouds","category-field","category-forest","category-landscape","category-moon","category-mountains","category-nature","category-photo-friday","category-river","category-rocky-mountain-national-park-colorado","category-sky","category-summer","category-sunset","category-trees","tag-colorado","tag-landscape","tag-nature","column","twocol","has-thumbnail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog-vm.journeyoflight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}