{"id":110208,"date":"2022-04-19T04:22:23","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T10:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=110208"},"modified":"2022-04-19T04:22:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T10:22:23","slug":"northern-shoveler-in-flight-soon-after-takeoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/19\/northern-shoveler-in-flight-soon-after-takeoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Shoveler In Flight Soon After Takeoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An omission I regret.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"110218\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/19\/northern-shoveler-in-flight-soon-after-takeoff\/northern-shoveler-3995b-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/northern-shoveler-3995b-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,643\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;6.3&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;RON DUDLEY&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS R5&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1647956154&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;700&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00015625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"northern shoveler 3995b ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/northern-shoveler-3995b-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-110218 size-full\" title=\"northern-shoveler-3995b-ron-dudley\" src=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/northern-shoveler-3995b-ron-dudley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/northern-shoveler-3995b-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/northern-shoveler-3995b-ron-dudley-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/northern-shoveler-3995b-ron-dudley-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/northern-shoveler-3995b-ron-dudley-150x107.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>1\/6400, f\/6.3, ISO 800, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n<p>About a month ago, not long after I bought my new camera, I posted a series of photos of this male Northern Shoveler taken soon after he lifted off from a canal at Bear River MBR. But I left this photo out of the series and I shouldn&#8217;t have. I didn&#8217;t include it for two reasons, both of which turned out to be bogus.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>his wings were in a horizontal position, a wing position I&#8217;ve told myself for years I don&#8217;t like.<\/li>\n<li>just glancing at the unprocessed image I didn&#8217;t think I had enough room in the frame above the bird for a suitable composition without adding canvas, which I don&#8217;t like to do.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But last night I revisited the photo, processed it for the first time, and discovered that I had plenty of room in the frame (thanks to the 45 MP file size of the R5) and I actually liked the wing position &#8211; at least in this instance. The way his wingtips curl up on either side of his lower neck appeals to me and he has a head turn toward me that I hadn&#8217;t noticed before. That head turn brought out the iridescent green sheen of his head and neck.<\/p>\n<p>So today I&#8217;m posting the photo. I regret leaving it out and I think it deserves to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>Ron<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Notes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>If you didn&#8217;t see the original series it can be seen <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/23\/northern-shoveler-takeoff-and-flight-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/span><\/span>. If I had included it, this photo would have been #4 in the series.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>In the upper right hand corner of the original photo there was a tiny portion of a coot in the frame. I reluctantly removed it because the black was so distracting.\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An omission I regret.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/19\/northern-shoveler-in-flight-soon-after-takeoff\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110218,"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":[338,334,1271],"tags":[49,6315,146,211,584,6232,2738],"class_list":["post-110208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bear-river-migratory-bird-refuge-favorite-locations","category-birds","category-northern-shovelers","tag-bear-river-migratory-bird-refuge","tag-canon-r5-file-size","tag-flight","tag-male","tag-northern-shoveler","tag-spatula-clypeata","tag-takeoff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/northern-shoveler-3995b-ron-dudley.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zzJh-sFy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110208","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=110208"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110240,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110208\/revisions\/110240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}