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Look at this epicness<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Does he care that it’s spring and yet there is snow on the ground?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, maybe a little.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the local pond there are photographers walking around, cradling their telephoto lenses, lightly illuminated by the early morning sun, looking for birds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I, I stand on my snow-covered deck in my socks and PJs (I do not make wise choices) to snap some photos of birds who forgot to read the weather report. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First(ish) Robin of Spring<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’ve tried to become more intentional with my photography. More planning, less reacting. Yet, the photos I enjoy the most are the ones I don’t plan out, even if they don’t ‘work’. The ones I grab my camera to snap some photos of before; in this case, the birds get annoyed and take off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I play with white balance, check out my focal plane, identify what mistakes I made, and, hopefully, what techniques I got right. I’m not going to critique these photos, at least not today, because, honestly, this was for fun. Once I practice enough bird photography, maybe even my ‘for fun’ photos will display some technical skill, but for now, I attempted, and I have a photo I’m using for my phone wallpaper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fluffy ball of rage. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Look at this epicness Does he care that it’s spring and yet there is snow on the ground? Well, maybe a little. At the local pond there are photographers walking around, cradling their telephoto lenses, lightly illuminated by the early morning sun, looking for birds. And I, I stand on my snow-covered deck in my socks and PJs (I do not make wise choices) to snap some photos of birds who forgot to read the weather report. First(ish) Robin of Spring I’ve tried to become more intentional with my photography. More planning, less reacting. Yet, the photos I enjoy the most are the ones I don’t plan out, even if they don’t ‘work’. The ones I grab my camera to snap some photos of before; in this case, the birds get annoyed and take off. I play with white balance, check out my focal plane, identify what mistakes I made, and, hopefully, what techniques I got right. I’m not going to critique these photos, at least not today, because, honestly, this was for fun. Once I practice enough bird photography, maybe even my ‘for fun’ photos will display some technical skill, but for now, I attempted, and I have a photo I’m using for my phone wallpaper. Fluffy ball of rage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"brizy-blank-template.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[44,9,39,42,43,18,41],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","category-photography","tag-angrybird","tag-beautyissubjective","tag-birdphotography","tag-bluebird","tag-fluffy","tag-imhorribleatagging","tag-springislate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandrajloman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandrajloman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandrajloman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandrajloman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandrajloman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sandrajloman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":615,"href":"https:\/\/sandrajloman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions\/615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandrajloman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandrajloman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandrajloman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}