{"id":3938,"date":"2016-12-08T12:50:33","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T18:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/?p=3938"},"modified":"2016-12-09T18:33:02","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T00:33:02","slug":"bosque-del-apache-nwr-2016-volume-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/08\/bosque-del-apache-nwr-2016-volume-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Bosque del Apache NWR 2016: volume 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been\u00a0sorting\u00a0about 6000 images from a\u00a03 1\/2 day November Photo Tour\u00a0in central New Mexico at the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge.\u00a0 The refuge was in excellent condition and the weather was cooperative, so we had good luck photographing the landscapes and wildlife of the area.\u00a0 I wanted to show you so many of these that I decided to print them by category.<\/p>\n

Let’s start with landscapes, since they are colorful and not too numerous.\u00a0 The following are from the Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescopes located about 50 miles west of our base in Socorro, New Mexico.\u00a0 You may remember the VLA if you have\u00a0seen the Jodie Foster movie “Contact”.\u00a0 Anyway, the combination of an incredible sunset and the sci-fi nature of our landscape really got us pumped.<\/p>\n

Click on a photo and it will enlarge and sharpen for viewing.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Each of the 27 dishes is 82′ across and weighs 100 tons. They\u00a0gather radio waves from\u00a0deep space to\u00a0provide information on forming stars, black holes and galaxies.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Radio Telescopes at VLA, New Mexico<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These sunset shots were done with a Canon 50D Mark II camera and\u00a024-105 mm lens.<\/p>\n

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At the end of the day, an incredible New Mexico sunset painted the sky red and orange.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Several telescopes were within walking distance of the parking lot\u00a0or were visible from a short walking trail.\u00a0\u00a0Our timing was perfect\u00a0as we enjoyed incredible light for the last half hour of the day\u00a0.<\/p>\n

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A windmill at the VLA.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tomorrow, we will look at wildlife and more landscapes on the Bosque del Apache Refuge.<\/p>\n

Larry<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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I’ve been\u00a0sorting\u00a0about 6000 images from a\u00a03 1\/2 day November Photo Tour\u00a0in central New Mexico at the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge.\u00a0 The refuge was in excellent condition and the weather was cooperative, so we had good luck photographing the landscapes and wildlife of the area.\u00a0 I wanted to show you so many of these … Continue reading Bosque del Apache NWR 2016: volume 1<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/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-3938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3938"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3950,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3938\/revisions\/3950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}