{"id":467,"date":"2009-07-21T06:43:47","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T14:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/?p=467"},"modified":"2009-07-21T06:43:47","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T14:43:47","slug":"eastern-sierra-workshop-mt-whitney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/21\/eastern-sierra-workshop-mt-whitney\/","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Sierra Workshop &#8211; Mt Whitney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mt Whitney is the grandest and tallest peak in the Sierra Nevada and the lower 48.\u00a0 At 14,497 feet it&#8217;s a challenge to climb, even if there is a trail that takes you to the top.\u00a0 I recall the first time I climbed it at the age of 14.\u00a0 It was one of the most difficult things I had ever done.<\/p>\n<p>But photographing it at dawn last week was one of the most thrilling things I have ever photographed.\u00a0 We were treated to a magnificent alpenglow the likes of which I have never seen before.\u00a0 It looked like the mountain was glowing with a warm light from within.\u00a0 It stood tall and powerful against the still-dark sky.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_468\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-468\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/mt_whitney_alpenglow_2009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-468\" title=\"mt_whitney_alpenglow_2009\" src=\"http:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/mt_whitney_alpenglow_2009-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Mt Whitney Alpenglow\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/mt_whitney_alpenglow_2009-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/mt_whitney_alpenglow_2009.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-468\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mt Whitney Alpenglow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;m working on an image taken probably 15 minutes later when the sun first touched the peak.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll share that one with you tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>For more of my fine art photographs visit my website. <a href=\"http:\/\/RalphNordstromPhotography.com\">http:\/\/RalphNordstromPhotography.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bawpvc-ajax-counter\" data-id=\"467\"> (659)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mt Whitney is the grandest and tallest peak in the Sierra Nevada and the lower 48.\u00a0 At 14,497 feet it&#8217;s a challenge to climb, even if there is a trail that takes you to the top.\u00a0 I recall the first time I climbed it at the age of 14.\u00a0 It was one of the most &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/21\/eastern-sierra-workshop-mt-whitney\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Eastern Sierra Workshop &#8211; Mt Whitney&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Nl7-7x","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}