{"id":1249609549,"date":"2021-07-30T17:25:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T00:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zerodean.com\/photography\/?p=1249609549"},"modified":"2022-03-10T17:29:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T01:29:11","slug":"pre-dawn-in-the-desert-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zerodean.com\/photography\/photos\/pre-dawn-in-the-desert-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-dawn in the desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/zerodean.com\/photography\/photos\/pre-dawn-in-the-desert-2021\/attachment\/predawn-in-the-desert-zero-dean\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1249609550\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1249609550\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/zerodean.com\/photography\/photos\/pre-dawn-in-the-desert-2021\/attachment\/predawn-in-the-desert-zero-dean\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/zerodean.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/predawn-in-the-desert-zero-dean.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1080,720\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Zero Dean&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"predawn-in-the-desert-zero-dean\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/zerodean.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/predawn-in-the-desert-zero-dean.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/zerodean.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/predawn-in-the-desert-zero-dean.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1249609550\" src=\"https:\/\/zerodean.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/predawn-in-the-desert-zero-dean.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"720\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Taken in the mountains outside of Las Vegas with a &#8220;point-and-shoot&#8221; camera I picked up during the pandemic. I put point-and-shoot in quotes because it is actually a <em>very capable<\/em> little camera (Sony RX100VII).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taken in the mountains outside of Las Vegas with a &#8220;point-and-shoot&#8221; camera I picked up during the pandemic. I put point-and-shoot in quotes because it is actually a very capable little camera (Sony RX100VII).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61,68],"class_list":["post-1249609549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","tag-landscapes-and-nature","tag-sony-rx100vii"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1249608614,"url":"https:\/\/zerodean.com\/photography\/photos\/blanca-2019\/","url_meta":{"origin":1249609549,"position":0},"title":"Blanca","author":"Zero Dean","date":"June 25, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"In the spring of 2019, I began planning a cross country trip in which I would interview people for a video documentary series (and podcast) about resilience & hope. 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