{"id":104655,"date":"2021-12-01T06:01:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T13:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=104655"},"modified":"2021-12-01T18:27:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T01:27:37","slug":"the-day-ive-been-dreading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/01\/the-day-ive-been-dreading\/","title":{"rendered":"The Day I&#8217;ve Been Dreading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unfortunate change in the posting schedule of Feathered Photography.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been blogging for over eleven years now and posting every day for almost the entire time. But circumstances won&#8217;t allow that schedule to continue because our bird populations have been negatively impacted so severely by human shortsightedness and greed.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mismanagement of the water feeding into the Great Salt Lake is a big part of it. So much of that water, the Bear River in particular, has been diverted and impounded for agricultural and industrial use that the lake began to shrink years ago. As a result, many of the prime habitats for birds have been negatively impacted.<\/li>\n<li>Our ongoing and severe anthropogenic drought has only accelerated the already rapid decline of the lake and its associated habitats. But the drought has also negatively impacted bird habitats in our nearby mountains and deserts &#8211; in fact in all of the places I photograph birds.<\/li>\n<li>Relentless development &#8211; including new housing tracts, expanding industry, new roads, new landfills and energy development (the list is endless) &#8211; has either eaten up prime habitats or brought intense human activity so close to them that birds have largely abandoned them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As a result, birds have become much harder to find and especially to photograph well. These days, more often than not, I return from a long morning of attempting to photograph birds without a single photo I&#8217;m proud of. Yesterday morning in the mountains I didn&#8217;t take a single photo. Not even one.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m downhearted and discouraged. I could keep posting every day but in attempting to do so the overall quality of my posts would be significantly reduced for lack of quality bird photos and I refuse to allow that to happen. Readers don&#8217;t want to see sh***y bird photos and I don&#8217;t want to post them. And continually posting older photos, as I&#8217;ve already been doing too often for too long, has little appeal for me. Resting on my laurels &#8211; blah.<\/p>\n<p>So, for the near future at least, I won&#8217;t be posting every day. My intention is to mostly post newer photos that I&#8217;m proud of, with fewer older photos in the mix. How often I post depends on what birds I find and what photos I manage to get. Hopefully, when and if the snow flies, things will improve. They often do.<\/p>\n<p>In life I always try to roll with the punches but this one has me seeing stars.<\/p>\n<p>Ron<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unfortunate change in the posting schedule of Feathered Photography.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/01\/the-day-ive-been-dreading\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[334,8],"tags":[6041,6040,6039],"class_list":["post-104655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-ecology-and-environment","tag-anthropogenic-drought","tag-impact-of-drought-on-utahs-birds","tag-mismanagement-of-great-salt-lake-water"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zzJh-rdZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104655"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104680,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104655\/revisions\/104680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}