{"id":5410,"date":"2017-09-06T11:32:22","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T15:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=5410"},"modified":"2019-02-10T09:39:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T14:39:49","slug":"mt-rushmore-national-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/06\/mt-rushmore-national-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Mt Rushmore National Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My postcard shot<\/p><\/div>\n

As I mentioned in my previous post, Jett and I visited the Mt Rushmore National Memorial<\/a> on the evening of Labor Day. It was a beautiful night and I thought I got some really nice photos. But I was wrong – they were fuzzy and washed out. I guess I need to learn more about taking photos at night.<\/p>\n

I couldn’t leave SD without at least one good Mt Rushmore photo and we were close enough that I could make a second trip there (and for free – the parking pass was good until the end of the year!). I got lots of photos and most of them were pretty darn good.<\/p>\n

I walked the entire Presidential Trail which is not very long – maybe a mile or so – but has a lot of up-and-down. I got some good exercise to go along with my good photos. The trail takes you to the base of the sculpture, so I got some great up-the-nostril shots.<\/p>\n

The other thing that the trail offers is a number of “isolation points” where only one of the presidents is clearly visible. These points have displays highlighting the accomplishments of the individual.<\/p>\n

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At the base of the sculpture<\/p><\/div>\n

I have to give credit to the weather. It was an impossibly beautiful morning with crystal-clear azure skies. Couldn’t ask for better conditions for photography.<\/p>\n

Besides the mountain, I also enjoyed the walk through the Ponderosa pines. It was strongly reminiscent of the forest scene from Hitchcock’s North by Northwest<\/a>, which, of course, was filmed in this area.<\/p>\n

\"Stairs<\/a>

Stairs on the trail<\/p><\/div>\n

\"One<\/a>

One of the isolation spots<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Rubble\"<\/a>

Rubble<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Ponderosa<\/a>

Ponderosa pines<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Peeking<\/a>

Peeking over the trees<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I mentioned in my previous post, Jett and I visited the Mt Rushmore National Memorial on the evening of Labor Day. It was a beautiful night and I thought I got some really nice photos. But I was wrong – they were fuzzy and washed out. I guess I need to learn more about … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,4,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-places","category-places-sd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-1pg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5410"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7482,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410\/revisions\/7482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}