{"id":169611,"date":"2025-08-28T05:42:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T11:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=169611"},"modified":"2025-08-28T12:11:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T18:11:00","slug":"feathered-photography-is-bowing-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/28\/feathered-photography-is-bowing-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Feathered Photography Is Bowing Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of you may have seen this coming. The signs were there.<\/p>\n

In one of the most difficult decisions of any kind I’ve ever had to make, I’ve reluctantly determined that it’s time for me to stop blogging and eventually shut down Feathered Photography. It’s my intention that today’s post will be my swan song.<\/p>\n

Why?<\/p>\n

The primary reason is related to rampant overdevelopment in northern Utah, resulting in massive loss of habitat and disappearing birds. Virtually all of my old birding haunts are being developed or are being negatively affected by nearby development. The disappearing Great Salt Lake, caused largely by shortsighted and selfish politicians, developers and industry, is a huge part of that equation.<\/p>\n

There’s a reason why in the last 18 months I’ve gone from posting every day, to posting three times a week, to posting twice a week – it’s a lack of birds and a lack of bird variety.<\/p>\n

In the past my birding excursions have always been trips of joy, where I get to spend time with the birds I love as I watch and try to photograph their behaviors and interactions. Now, all too often those trips are just depressing.<\/p>\n

Yes, I can still find birds but not nearly as often or as many as I used to and given the focus of Feathered Photography, that’s a big problem. I never intended my blog to just be a place where folks can find pretty pictures of birds. Sites like that are a dime a dozen on the internet. Instead, I wanted to focus largely on documenting interesting bird behaviors and I did that successfully for many years. But those kinds of photos are much harder to get, so getting them requires large numbers of interactions with birds before you’re successful (if you’re lucky). I no longer find enough birds to be successful regularly and I refuse to let Feathered Photography devolve into something I never intended it to be<\/em> – just photos of pretty birds.<\/p>\n

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There are other reasons I’m calling it quits, including the following, but they pale in comparison to what I’ve described above.<\/p>\n