{"id":32634,"date":"2025-10-29T01:03:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T05:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=32634"},"modified":"2025-10-28T20:09:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T00:09:03","slug":"cool-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/cool-water\/","title":{"rendered":"cool water"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_32635\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/sahara.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32635\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32635\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/sahara-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-32635\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">petrified wood and some sand from the Sahara (in Libya area) around 2000.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Old photo collectors value outdoor scenes, work environment, etc. An unusual category might be desert scenes. We learn in school the various desert areas in the world. While the USA has a number of them, the only one I remember up here is a spot in southern BC \u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Okanagan_Desert\">Okanagan Desert<\/a>). And apparently the Yukon also has a tiny desert area (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carcross_Desert\">Carcross Desert<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The two best known deserts to me are <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gobi_Desert\">the Gobi in Northern China and Mongolia<\/a> \u00a0and the massive<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sahara\"> Sahara in Northern Africa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Collectors of old images can check their collection and search for desert related photos at various events like our coming <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/our-fall-auction-nov-9-2025\/\">November 9th Auction<\/a>. Of course you never know just what you may find at an auction &#8211; come out and enjoy the experience and excitement!<\/p>\n<p>This post stems from a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cool_Water_(song)\">song<\/a> of my childhood, Cool Water, sung here by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RxAQwMNXlic\">Marty Robbins<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Old photo collectors value outdoor scenes, work environment, etc. An unusual category might be desert scenes. We learn in school the various desert areas in the world. While the USA has a number of them, the only one I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/cool-water\/\">Continue reading <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":[27],"tags":[4816,4644],"class_list":["post-32634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auction","tag-desert-scenes","tag-old-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32634"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32638,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32634\/revisions\/32638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}