{"id":455,"date":"2006-02-16T23:18:18","date_gmt":"2006-02-17T07:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aprilgem.com\/log\/?p=455"},"modified":"2016-12-05T17:58:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T01:58:58","slug":"bird-in-the-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aprilgem.com\/log\/?p=455","title":{"rendered":"Bird in the Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bird!\"<\/p>\n

H.E. wants to send me somewhere new for photos. I haven’t gone shooting for a long, long while now, so I’ve been digging regularly in my archives. I’ve discovered that I take less photos at each shoot now, even though the digital format makes it easy to take more. I took 76 shots in my last outing, but out of those 76 I’d happily show 70, so I’m not at all sad that I didn’t fill my media card with 700 shots. So long as my ratio of presentable shots is high, I’m happy.<\/p>\n

This one is almost presentable. It’s one of those where I didn’t quite get what I was attempting. I couldn’t get the focus on the bird, which kept moving around and blending into the background. So the focus is on the dried little bloom. This is from that fateful hike I made along the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserves, where I caught so many birds in action, so it was in my first days with the camera.<\/p>\nShare this post:

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H.E. wants to send me somewhere new for photos. I haven’t gone shooting for a long, long while now, so I’ve been digging regularly in my archives. I’ve discovered that I take less photos at each shoot now, even though the digital format makes it easy to take more. I took 76 shots in my last outing, but out of those 76 I’d happily show 70, so I’m not at all sad that I didn’t fill my media card with…<\/p>\n

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