{"id":86,"date":"2007-08-14T18:20:58","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T01:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/?p=86"},"modified":"2007-08-15T03:40:14","modified_gmt":"2007-08-15T10:40:14","slug":"86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"Mojave National Preserve, Aug 11th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">As I was passing by a beautiful stretch of desert on the way to Vegas I spotted puffy white clouds across the deep blue sky and I thought how it would make a great desert shot. I was determined to find an exit and could hardly wait to start photographing.<span>  <\/span>I came upon an exit called <st1:street w:st=\"on\"><st1:address w:st=\"on\">Cima   Road<\/st1:address><\/st1:street> which happens to be the exit to the Mojave National Preserve. What luck!<span>  <\/span>This natural preserve is sandwiched between the I15, the I40 and the California-Nevada border. Summer temperature ranges between 90-115 degrees, perfect environment for the <em>yucca brevifolio<\/em>, otherwise known as the Joshua Tree. The temperature readout in my car was 115 degrees.<span>  <\/span>I was so ecstatic to be there I was like a kid in a candy store.  For this blog I chose two images that provided a sense of time and place. One image is a Joshua Tree.  I felt this photo would be best represented in black and white.  I converted it to black and white with a little help from my brother Francis, a Photoshop expert. The other photo is Cima Road which seems to go on forever in the vast open space of the Mojave.  I kept this image in color because it presents a real contrast between the blue sky and the earth color of the desert and the brick red asphalt.<span>  <\/span>Click on a photo for a larger view.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/pj-mojave\/joshuatree700.jpg\" title=\"Mojave National Preserve\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mojave.jpg\" title=\"Mojave National Preserve\" alt=\"Mojave National Preserve\" border=\"1\" height=\"464\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/pj-mojave\/cimaroad700.jpg\" title=\"Cima Road to Mojave National Preserve\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mojave2.jpg\" title=\"Cima Road\" alt=\"Cima Road\" border=\"1\" height=\"464\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I was passing by a beautiful stretch of desert on the way to Vegas I spotted puffy white clouds across the deep blue sky and I thought how it would make a great desert shot. I was determined to find an exit and could hardly wait to start photographing. I came upon an exit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-blog-posts","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picturejournals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}