{"id":3928,"date":"2016-11-04T12:30:34","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T17:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/?p=3928"},"modified":"2016-11-04T12:31:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T17:31:50","slug":"good-photographers-make-good-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/2016\/11\/04\/good-photographers-make-good-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Photographers Make Excellent Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

About a month ago, Tom and Barbara Pickthall from the Houston area spent the weekend photographing with me at the Santa Clara Ranch northwest of McAllen.\u00a0 Their time\u00a0was well spent\u00a0as they captured\u00a0some really nice images of a variety of wildlife.\u00a0\u00a0They were kind enough to share some shots for the newsletter.\u00a0 I hope you will enjoy these as much as I.<\/p>\n

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Northern Mockingbird at lift off from a ranch pond.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Pickthalls have been doing wildlife and outdoor photography for many years, so it’s no surprise that their timing is amazing when it comes to capturing the “moment” as Barbara did with the mockingbird above.<\/p>\n

\"Roadrunner<\/a>
Roadrunner with some sort of plant part.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Barbara caught this northern roadrunner playing with the remains of a plant seed or pod.<\/p>\n

\"Bobcat<\/a>
Bobcat at Dorothy’s Pond for a late afternoon drink.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These bobcat photos represent Tom Pickthall’s reward for being focused enough to continue the pursuit until the animal he is after makes an appearance.<\/p>\n

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Bobcat getting its evening drink.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Green<\/a>
Green Jay landing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A fast shutter speed and well placed focus point helped Tom get this landing green jay with wings spread.<\/p>\n

One of the rewards from guiding photographers on these little safaris is getting to see and share their images of various landscapes and critters.\u00a0 For those of you who have photographed, please accept this invitation to share some of your favorite shots.<\/p>\n

For now, I’m just waiting to head north for a few fall colors.\u00a0 It was 98 degrees in McAllen two days ago.\u00a0 Surely, it’s autumn somewhere.<\/p>\n

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

About a month ago, Tom and Barbara Pickthall from the Houston area spent the weekend photographing with me at the Santa Clara Ranch northwest of McAllen.\u00a0 Their time\u00a0was well spent\u00a0as they captured\u00a0some really nice images of a variety of wildlife.\u00a0\u00a0They were kind enough to share some shots for the newsletter.\u00a0 I hope you will enjoy … Continue reading Experienced Photographers Make Excellent Photos<\/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-3928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928","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=3928"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3936,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions\/3936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}