{"id":98,"date":"2009-06-06T06:19:28","date_gmt":"2009-06-06T13:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/?p=98"},"modified":"2009-06-06T06:19:28","modified_gmt":"2009-06-06T13:19:28","slug":"southwest-by-midwest-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"Southwest by Midwest (part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is continued from Part 1<\/a>, which you should probably look at first…<\/p>\n

More Dodge City.\u00c2\u00a0 Boot Hill is a reminder of the most lawless town in the West.<\/p>\n

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Another HDR, but I tried hard to make it look realistic.\u00c2\u00a0 I’d love to hear your thoughts.
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COLORADO – The Garden of the Gods
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This was my first go at HDR… I’m not sure how I feel about it.
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Eagle Mountain
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Somewhere along the road, probably in New Mexico.
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ARIZONA again – the Desert Museum
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The raptors were amazing…
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I wouldn’t want to be a rodent of any kind around this guy. \"20090225-090225-105715.jpg\"<\/p>\n

Wile E. Coyote
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Stars
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This river otter was sucking on his tail while he was sleeping…\"20090225-090225-134337.jpg\"<\/p>\n

By the way, the Desert Museum features all plants and animals that live in the American deserts… it’s amazing how full of life the desert is!
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The Mission San Xavier del Bac in Tucson
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My grandfather used to call the saguaro cacti “the old generals.”\u00c2\u00a0 They stand on guard all around Tucson.
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For another way of looking at my favorite travel photos, check out the Places Gallery<\/a> on my site.\u00c2\u00a0 (When you get there, hit F to go fullscreen!)<\/p>\n

Want more Southwest by Midwest?\u00c2\u00a0 View the whole gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is continued from Part 1, which you should probably look at first… More Dodge City.\u00c2\u00a0 Boot Hill is a reminder of the most lawless town in the West. Another HDR, but I tried hard to make it look realistic.\u00c2\u00a0 I’d love to hear your thoughts. COLORADO – The Garden of the Gods This was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-places"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfloreen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}