{"id":19945,"date":"2026-03-24T08:52:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=19945"},"modified":"2026-03-24T08:52:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:52:52","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-sunflower-desolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-sunflower-desolation\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: Sunflower Desolation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">T<\/span>he Camino took me past acres and acres of fields of dead sunflowers. I don\u2019t know if I just missed the season, or they\u2019re not liking the heat and drought. They must have been magnificent when they were in full bloom, but now they look like desiccated corpses standing nearly to the horizon. I took many photos trying to capture the image, but I don\u2019t think any of them really does convey the sense of desolation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/53331555367_cba1443ad4_4k-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19946\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/53331555367_cba1443ad4_4k-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/53331555367_cba1443ad4_4k-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/53331555367_cba1443ad4_4k-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/53331555367_cba1443ad4_4k-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/53331555367_cba1443ad4_4k-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/53331555367_cba1443ad4_4k-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/53331555367_cba1443ad4_4k-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Date: <\/strong>06 September 2023 <br><strong>Place:<\/strong> between Chapelle Saint-Jean-le-Froid and Le Bousquet, Lot D\u00e9partement, Region of Occitanie, France<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Maps!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"is-style-default wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"963\" height=\"660\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/VP-21.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19932\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/VP-21.png 963w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/VP-21-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/VP-21-150x103.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/VP-21-768x526.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 963px) 100vw, 963px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"is-style-default wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1092\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/VP-arrow-21-Lauzerte-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/VP-arrow-21-Lauzerte-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/VP-arrow-21-Lauzerte-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/VP-arrow-21-Lauzerte-1024x437.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/VP-arrow-21-Lauzerte-150x64.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/VP-arrow-21-Lauzerte-768x328.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/VP-arrow-21-Lauzerte-1536x655.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/VP-arrow-21-Lauzerte-2048x873.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Camino took me past acres and acres of fields of dead sunflowers. I don\u2019t know if I just missed the season, or they\u2019re not liking the heat and drought. They must have been magnificent when they were in full bloom, but now they look like desiccated corpses standing nearly to the horizon. I took many photos trying to capture [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-day-2023","category-via-podiensis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19948,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19945\/revisions\/19948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}