{"id":1087,"date":"2011-01-01T22:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T04:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2011-01-02T14:30:55","modified_gmt":"2011-01-02T20:30:55","slug":"happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/01\/happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can’t believe 2011 is here already.\u00a0 The fall and\u00a0early winter have flown by,\u00a0and I didn’t get to do nearly as much photography as I’d hoped.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I just spent most of the holidays editing and culling photo files.\u00a0 Still there are thousands of shots to be edited, labeled and optimized.\u00a0 The computer stuff never ends, does it?\u00a0<\/p>\n

In spite of all that computer time last week, I did\u00a0sneak\u00a0out\u00a0one\u00a0morning to chase white-tailed deer and then I spent\u00a0an afternoon sitting in a photo blind.\u00a0\u00a0Here are\u00a0a few of those shots.<\/p>\n

Remember to click on the photographs to enlarge\u00a0them for better\u00a0viewing.\u00a0 Then you can click on to the next and view them at your own speed as a slide show.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Ten pointer following the trail of a doe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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In late December, the big bucks are in constant pursuit of females and have little time to feed or pose for photos. This big guy allowed me to follow until he topped a little ridge and paused in front of the sunrise.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u00a0Both of the previous shots were taken with the Canon 1D Mark III and 100-400 mm IS Canon lens, hand held.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It took several tries to capture this green jay landing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Most of my shots of landing birds look like this. It has good color...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I had to crop the tail of this green jay since I shot this photo close in with about 1,000 mm of telephoto power.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Another close focus on a green jay.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
These last two\u00a0green jay\u00a0shots were taken with the Canon 7D, 500 mm IS lens and 1.4X teleconverter at close range.\u00a0 I was geared for warblers, but couldn’t resist the green jays.<\/div>\n
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This verdin came to feed on an orange slice I had placed near a perch. Unfortunately, green jays persisted in chasing it away.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Yellow-rumped warblers fed and bathed near my blind all afternoon. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
When I am in a blind photographing birds with the big lens, I always keep a second camera ready with the 100-400 mm lens\u00a0in case a mammal comes to water.\u00a0 On this day, a thirsty armadillo spent about 5 minutes drinking at the small\u00a0pond about 15′ in front of me.<\/div>\n
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That long tongue and snout look like they are made for drinking, but I suspect they are more useful for rooting in leaf litter and grabbing invertebrates.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I always try to remember to mix some vertical shots with the horizontals, even when the shot demands a horizontal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Santa didn’t bring me the new cameras and lenses I was hoping for, so I’ve decided to try being the first photographer to completely wear out a 500 mm lens.\u00a0 Mine has 11 good years behind it and is still going strong.\u00a0 I’m going to sprinkle a little salt spray on it this coming week.\u00a0\u00a0You will hear more about that in the next newsletter.<\/p><\/div>\n

Happy New Year!<\/div>\n
Larry<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can’t believe 2011 is here already.\u00a0 The fall and\u00a0early winter have flown by,\u00a0and I didn’t get to do nearly as much photography as I’d hoped.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I just spent most of the holidays editing and culling photo files.\u00a0 Still there are thousands of shots to be edited, labeled and optimized.\u00a0 The computer stuff never ends, … Continue reading Happy New Year!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1106,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions\/1106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}