{"id":942,"date":"2015-04-28T14:10:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T22:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/?p=942"},"modified":"2015-04-28T14:10:13","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T22:10:13","slug":"owlet-plus-rookie-photog-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/?p=942","title":{"rendered":"Owlet plus rookie photog rant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSC6380.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC6380\" width=\"800\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSC6338.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC6338\" width=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSC6347.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC6347\" width=\"800\" height=\"352\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSC6359.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC6359\" width=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSC6360.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC6360\" width=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-948\" src=\"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSC6369.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC6369\" width=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSC6369.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSC6369-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I stopped by the owl nest yesterday around 6pm to see if I might sneak a photo of the elusive-to-me owlet. \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;m still learning so much, even focusing with a zoom lens that is supposed to auto-focus does not seem to work, so this made my fourth trip out there since I really would like to eventually get a great photograph of these beautiful birds. <\/p>\n<p>When I got there there was one guy out with a camera, an obvious photographer. \u00c2\u00a0Another arrived with a ginormous camera, lens and tripod. \u00c2\u00a0And within the space of the approximate 20 minutes I was there, a total of four more photographers showed up, most\u00c2\u00a0with tripods, plus some kids.<\/p>\n<p>The noise from the kids and the chatty photographers was obscene. \u00c2\u00a0I sat in my car the entire time, with my seat leaned back so I could be as unobtrusive for the owls as possible, but the rest of the humans there made me ashamed to be a part of humanity. \u00c2\u00a0No respect for the gorgeous animals was paid, instead, these people acted like they were part of a big human circus. \u00c2\u00a0This is not the kind of photographer I want to be or be affiliated with, so I left. \u00c2\u00a0I just feel really badly for the owls that had to stay&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stopped by the owl nest yesterday around 6pm to see if I might sneak a photo of the elusive-to-me owlet. \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;m still learning so much, even focusing with a zoom lens that is supposed to auto-focus does not seem &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/?p=942\">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":[],"categories":[29,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perlgurl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}