{"id":17070,"date":"2013-07-22T04:00:19","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T10:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=17070"},"modified":"2013-07-20T17:15:12","modified_gmt":"2013-07-20T23:15:12","slug":"northern-harrier-gaining-altitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/22\/northern-harrier-gaining-altitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Harrier Gaining Altitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I&#8217;m posting a single,\u00a0simple image &#8211; a Northern Harrier in flight against a plain blue sky.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/northern-harrier-2536-ron-dudley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"17071\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/22\/northern-harrier-gaining-altitude\/northern-harrier-2536-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/northern-harrier-2536-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,680\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;7.1&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;RON DUDLEY&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 7D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1329384364&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;500&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;500&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"northern harrier 2536 ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/northern-harrier-2536-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17071\" alt=\"northern harrier 2536 ron dudley\" src=\"http:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/northern-harrier-2536-ron-dudley.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/northern-harrier-2536-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/northern-harrier-2536-ron-dudley-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/northern-harrier-2536-ron-dudley-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/northern-harrier-2536-ron-dudley-400x302.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>\u00a01\/2500, f\/7.1, ISO 500, 500 f\/4, natural light, canvas added for composition<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This hawk was attempting to gain altitude, thus the angled body with the wing raised high.\u00a0 I seldom get the wing held this high in my harrier images.\u00a0 This position gave me nice light under the wing which, when combined with the good detail (the\u00a0image hasn&#8217;t been cropped much),\u00a0highlights the differences in color and pattern\u00a0between the underwing coverts and the primary and secondary flight feathers &#8211; something I don&#8217;t often see this well-defined.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I like seeing those kinds of details.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ron<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Note: I&#8217;m on the road again for a few days and I&#8217;ll have no computer access\u00a0so I won&#8217;t be able to respond to any comments in a\u00a0timely fashion, though I do enjoy reading\u00a0those comments\u00a0in the email notifications I get on my phone.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This hawk was attempting to gain altitude, thus the angled body with the wing raised high.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/22\/northern-harrier-gaining-altitude\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17071,"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":[334,341],"tags":[86,146,1583,234,1584],"class_list":["post-17070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birds","category-northern-harriers","tag-circus-cyaneus","tag-flight","tag-flight-feathers","tag-northern-harrier","tag-underwing-coverts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/northern-harrier-2536-ron-dudley.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zzJh-4rk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17070","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=17070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}