{"id":3159,"date":"2015-05-26T18:19:31","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T23:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/?p=3159"},"modified":"2015-05-27T05:53:33","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T10:53:33","slug":"recent-visit-to-santa-clara-photography-ranch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/2015\/05\/26\/recent-visit-to-santa-clara-photography-ranch\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Visit to Santa Clara Photography Ranch"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few days ago, I spent a Saturday afternoon at the Santa Clara Photography Ranch with owner, Dr. Alberto Gutierrez, and\u00a0friends Randall Ennis and Terry Guthrie.\u00a0\u00a0Photography was a little slow that afternoon, so I came back for a couple of hours on Monday morning.\u00a0 Each trip yielded some keeper images;\u00a0I’m sharing 4 of them with you in this newsletter.\u00a0 Later that week, I guided photographer Gary Kramer on the Ramirez Ranch at Roma, Texas where we wanted to get plain chachalacas and other birds.<\/p>\n

I’m still trying to catch up with editing several thousand photos from Galveston Feather Fest, Block Creek Natural Area, Transition Photography Ranch, South Padre Island, Rockport spring nesting birds, an Arizona bird photography workshop and shots from the Laguna Seca Photography Ranch.\u00a0 I’ll be posting images from those shoots in coming editions of this newsletter.<\/p>\n

Please send along your comments and ideas if you wish.\u00a0 If you will click on the image, it will enlarge and sharpen.\u00a0 Advance through the slide show by clicking on the right edge of each image.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Green<\/a>
Green Jays on mesquite stump in wildflowers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These green jays were captured on a stormy morning at\u00a0the Roel Ramirez Ranch near Roma, Texas with the Canon 7d Mark II and 500 mm IS lens at ISO 800, 1\/200 second @ f4 in aperture priority.\u00a0 Within minutes of this capture, my shutter speed declined to 1\/15 second\u00a0as a rapidly approaching\u00a0thunderstorm\u00a0forced\u00a0\u00a0us\u00a0to abandon the\u00a0ranch for photo blind.<\/p>\n

\"Painted<\/a><\/p>\n

This\u00a0painted bunting\u00a0was taken with the Canon 7D Mark II camera and 500 mm IS lens from the car window just after sunrise.\u00a0 ISO 800, 1\/2000 second @ f 5.<\/p>\n

\"Scissor-tailed<\/a>
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, male, diving to scoop water from the photo blind pond while on the wing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I got this shot by anticipating the flight path of the flycatcher and pre-focusing to get the bird just as it flew from its perch to the water.\u00a0\u00a0Quick reflexes and the ability to\u00a0read the bird’s body language\u00a0helped me get this photo with the\u00a0Canon 7d Mark II and Canon 70-200 mm lens\u00a0with 1.4X teleconverter at ISO 400, 1\/3200 second @ f 5 (hand held).\u00a0 I try to keep a camera and zoom lens handy in case something large or very close appears that precludes using the 500 mm lens.<\/p>\n

\"White-fronted<\/a>
White-fronted Dove in a courtship posture that didn’t seem to impress a female dove in front of our blind.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As the sun was setting, I captured this image with the Canon 7D Mark II and\u00a0500 mm lens from a Wimberley head and Feisol tripod at ground level at ISO 500, 1\/1000 second @ f5.<\/p>\n

I’m always looking for\u00a0behavior and\/or action to make the image more interesting.\u00a0 Warm evening or morning light helps a bunch, too.<\/p>\n

Keep watching for more Spring images soon.<\/p>\n

Larry<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few days ago, I spent a Saturday afternoon at the Santa Clara Photography Ranch with owner, Dr. Alberto Gutierrez, and\u00a0friends Randall Ennis and Terry Guthrie.\u00a0\u00a0Photography was a little slow that afternoon, so I came back for a couple of hours on Monday morning.\u00a0 Each trip yielded some keeper images;\u00a0I’m sharing 4 of them with … Continue reading Recent Visit to Santa Clara Photography Ranch<\/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-3159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159","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=3159"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3169,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions\/3169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}