{"id":32367,"date":"2018-05-29T07:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T14:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=32367"},"modified":"2018-05-29T04:36:51","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T11:36:51","slug":"memorial-day-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2018\/05\/29\/memorial-day-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><I>In the high desert.<\/I><\/p>\n<p>The National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona is located on a vast piece of desert land in Cave Creek, northeast of Scottsdale where I live.  The fallow space leaves lots of room for future generations of murderous politicians to send innocent men and women to an early grave.  As usual, I try to visit a National Cemetery on Memorial Day and as this one is near my home, convenience was an added plus.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<I><\/p>\n<p><a href=https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/@33.6984982,-112.0220017,15z target=_blank><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/MemorialDayAZ_01.jpg\" width=\"1014\" height=\"681\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nClick the image for the map.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/MemorialDayAZ_02.jpg\" width=\"681\" height=\"1014\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nDedication.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/MemorialDayAZ_03.jpg\" width=\"681\" height=\"1014\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nAustere memorial.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/MemorialDayAZ_04.jpg\" width=\"681\" height=\"1014\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nGrave Locator.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/MemorialDatAZ_05.jpg\" width=\"681\" height=\"1014\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nTrue colors.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/MemorialDayAZ_06.jpg\" width=\"667\" height=\"1000\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nIn the Columbarium &#8211; where ashes are stored.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/MamorialDayAZ_07.jpg\" width=\"681\" height=\"1014\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nThe Columbarium.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/MemorialDayAZ_08.jpg\" width=\"681\" height=\"1014\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nSaguaro cemetery.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/MemorialDayAZ_09.jpg\" width=\"1014\" height=\"681\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nLone flag.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/MemorialDayAZ_10.jpg\" width=\"1014\" height=\"415\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nMoving display.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/MemorialDayAZ_11.jpg\" width=\"681\" height=\"1014\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nOcotillo.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/MemorialDayAZ_12.jpg\" width=\"681\" height=\"1014\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nMemorial Day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/MemorialDayAZ_13.jpg\" width=\"1014\" height=\"681\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nMourning.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/MemorialDayAZ_14.jpg\" width=\"681\" height=\"1014\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nNever forget.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/MemorialDayAZ_15.jpg\" width=\"1014\" height=\"681\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nUSAF.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/MemorialDayAZ_16.jpg\" width=\"681\" height=\"1014\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nUnder the hot Arizona sun.<\/p>\n<p><\/I><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>On this occasion the hardware consisted of the Nikon D3x along with the ancient but superb <a href=http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2013\/10\/05\/20mm-f3-5-ud-nikkor\/ target=_blank>20mm UD Nikkor<\/a>, the <a href=http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2012\/03\/12\/nikkor-af-35-70mm-f2-8d-zoom-lens\/ target=_blank>35-70mm AFD Nikkor<\/a> and the <a href=http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2012\/03\/10\/nikkor-q-200mm-f4-lens\/ target=_blank>200mm Nikkor-Q<\/a> which, I swear, will not allow you to make a bad picture.  The 20mm and 200mm were AI&#8217;d and chipped by me to allow recording of EXIF data, which I find key for image search and retrieval.  The AFD is factory Ai&#8217;d and chipped.  All pretty much straight out of camera with the exception of #10 (warmth added, cropped), #13 (monochrome conversion), #15 and #16 (LR cold tone preset plus highlight reduction).  ISO200 throughout with #10 being the best of ten at 1\/60th and f\/32 for maximum DOF.  I&#8217;m getting less steady with age!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the high desert. The National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona is located on a vast piece of desert land in Cave Creek, northeast of Scottsdale where I live. The fallow space leaves lots of room for future generations of murderous politicians to send innocent men and women to an early grave. As usual, I try &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2018\/05\/29\/memorial-day-2018\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Memorial Day 2018<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32367"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32386,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32367\/revisions\/32386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}