{"id":81940,"date":"2020-02-18T06:02:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T13:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=81940"},"modified":"2020-02-18T06:26:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T13:26:06","slug":"tweaks-and-adjustments-to-my-new-blog-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/18\/tweaks-and-adjustments-to-my-new-blog-theme\/","title":{"rendered":"Tweaks And Adjustments To My New Blog Theme…"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>and saying goodbye to a feature many of us will miss.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I thought the best way to get all of my readers on the “same page” regarding adjustments we’ve made to my new blog theme was to dedicate part of a post to them. Many blog followers won’t go back to read late comments on yesterday’s post so this seemed like the most effective method to bring loyal readers up to speed.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The most common request from readers was to make the gray background lighter so at 2 pm yesterday afternoon that’s what we did. That change should provide more contrast between text and backround making it a little easier to read. I don’t like white as a background for either my images or my text and neutral gray seems to be the best compromise. The only reason some readers were seeing a white background with my old theme was because that theme was no longer functioning properly. It was always set to gray, it just didn’t always show up that way.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>There’s been significant concern that my older posts will no longer work with the theme change. Not to worry – the new theme was applied to all of my older posts the instant Mia clicked the “magic button” that initiated the transition. Older posts can be accessed using either the search box or the Archives drop-down menu on the right sidebar of my blog.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The emails sent to my subscribers containing the links to each new post used to be from “Feathered Photography” but now they’re from “WordPress”. Yesterday some folks were leery of opening their subscription email for fear it was malicious or some kind of spam. Fear not, they’re safe – all they contain is the link to my new post each morning.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>When my new theme was first activated the “pinch and zoom” feature available on touch screens like smart phones and tablets no longer worked. Many of my readers like to use that feature to zoom in on photo details or make text larger so that feature has now been activated with my new theme.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>I’ve now done some “housekeeping” that I’ve put off for much too long. I’ve updated the “About Me” and “About This Blog” pages accessed on my top menu bar and I’ve cleaned up the “Blogs I Follow” list on my right sidebar. I’ve added to that list and removed links to blogs or web pages what were no longer active.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>But here’s the bad news.<\/p>\n<p>We tried but with my new theme there’s no practical way to have the rotating banner of photos at the top of each individual post, although that banner is still there on my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">home page<\/a>. Even though I’ve neglected that banner for some time (I’d actually been working on some new banner photos when I was forced to change my theme) I’m going to miss it. It feels like an old friend and many of those photos were nostalgic for me. Since it disappeared some of my readers have told me that they miss it too.<\/p>\n<p>So here’s a last look at three of my favorite banner photos that I’ve used over the years. I’ve made them larger than was possible in the banner so they can (hopefully) be better appreciated but they’re still in panorama format with a wide field of view.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"81953\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/18\/tweaks-and-adjustments-to-my-new-blog-theme\/elk-4300b-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/elk-4300b-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,360\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"5.6","credit":"RON DUDLEY","camera":"Canon EOS 7D","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1276954550","copyright":"","focal_length":"700","iso":"500","shutter_speed":"0.0015625","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"elk 4300b ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/elk-4300b-ron-dudley-300x90.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/elk-4300b-ron-dudley-1024x307.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-81953 size-full\" title=\"elk-4300b-ron-dudley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/elk-4300b-ron-dudley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/elk-4300b-ron-dudley.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/elk-4300b-ron-dudley-300x90.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/elk-4300b-ron-dudley-1024x307.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/elk-4300b-ron-dudley-768x230.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/elk-4300b-ron-dudley-150x45.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the most stunning sights I’ve seen in nature was this elk herd in Montana’s Centennial Valley. The herd was particularly impressive for three reasons: they were wild elk that I knew were in the area but they were rarely seen, they were strung out neatly in a line so each individual animal could be clearly seen and many of them were young calves. While the calves are young the herd nearly always stays well hidden high up in the mountains so this was a rare sight indeed.<\/p>\n<p>As you can probably tell most of the cows were wary and on high alert even though I was far away.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"81944\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/18\/tweaks-and-adjustments-to-my-new-blog-theme\/lower-red-rock-lake-campground-7476-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/lower-red-rock-lake-campground-7476-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,400\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"11","credit":"unknown","camera":"Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1284447177","copyright":"","focal_length":"17","iso":"400","shutter_speed":"0.004","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"lower red rock lake campground 7476 ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/lower-red-rock-lake-campground-7476-ron-dudley-300x100.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/lower-red-rock-lake-campground-7476-ron-dudley-1024x341.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-81944 size-full\" title=\"lower-red-rock-lake-campground-7476-ron-dudley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/lower-red-rock-lake-campground-7476-ron-dudley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/lower-red-rock-lake-campground-7476-ron-dudley.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/lower-red-rock-lake-campground-7476-ron-dudley-300x100.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/lower-red-rock-lake-campground-7476-ron-dudley-1024x341.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/lower-red-rock-lake-campground-7476-ron-dudley-768x256.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/lower-red-rock-lake-campground-7476-ron-dudley-150x50.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps my favorite camping site over the years has been this spot on the edge of Lower Red Rock Lake in the Centennial Valley. It’s wild and secluded and birds and wildlife are abundant. Skies, shadows and light are ever-changing and often spectacular. I’ve ridden out intense storms of every variety near this lake and the morning lake-fog is eerie and often beautiful as it clears.<\/p>\n<p>This lake and the Upper Lake were largely responsible for the eventual recovery of the Trumpeter Swan that was literally on the brink of extinction by the early 1930’s. While camping here I often see Trumpeters swimming by very close to my camping trailer while I’m enjoying my morning coffee or evening cocktail.<\/p>\n<p>And then there’s that rustic and dilapidated old wooden fence that seemed to be a songbird magnet.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/savannah-sparrow-5932b-ron-dudley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"49827\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/07\/savannah-sparrows-with-bugs-for-their-nestlings\/savannah-sparrow-5932b-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/savannah-sparrow-5932b-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,657\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"7.1","credit":"RON DUDLEY","camera":"Canon EOS 7D","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1310485372","copyright":"","focal_length":"700","iso":"640","shutter_speed":"0.0004","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"savannah sparrow 5932b ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/savannah-sparrow-5932b-ron-dudley-300x219.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/savannah-sparrow-5932b-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-49827 size-full\" title=\"savannah-sparrow-5932b-ron-dudley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/savannah-sparrow-5932b-ron-dudley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/savannah-sparrow-5932b-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/savannah-sparrow-5932b-ron-dudley-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/savannah-sparrow-5932b-ron-dudley-768x561.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/savannah-sparrow-5932b-ron-dudley-150x110.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/savannah-sparrow-5932b-ron-dudley-400x292.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among other species I photographed more Savannah Sparrows on that fence than I can count. This one had a beakfull of “bugs” for its chicks somewhere in a nest in the grass below the fence.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/farm-sunrise-7304b-ron-dudley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"81947\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/18\/tweaks-and-adjustments-to-my-new-blog-theme\/farm-sunrise-7304b-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/farm-sunrise-7304b-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,320\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"5.6","credit":"unknown","camera":"Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1277309607","copyright":"","focal_length":"17","iso":"400","shutter_speed":"0.0125","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"farm sunrise 7304b ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/farm-sunrise-7304b-ron-dudley-300x80.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/farm-sunrise-7304b-ron-dudley-1024x273.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-81947 size-full\" title=\"farm-sunrise-7304b-ron-dudley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/farm-sunrise-7304b-ron-dudley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/farm-sunrise-7304b-ron-dudley.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/farm-sunrise-7304b-ron-dudley-300x80.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/farm-sunrise-7304b-ron-dudley-1024x273.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/farm-sunrise-7304b-ron-dudley-768x205.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/farm-sunrise-7304b-ron-dudley-150x40.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is one of my favorite banner photos of all time. Summer sunrises and sunsets on our Montana family farm are often spectacular but this sunrise was one of the best. I had been sitting at the kitchen counter in the farmhouse enjoying my morning coffee and waiting for enough light to attempt to photograph the Great Horned Owls resident in the old granaries behind the house when I noticed the sun coming up over the grain bins and old granaries on the hill east of the house.<\/p>\n<p>I just HAD to take a photo.<\/p>\n<p>Minutes later I went looking for owls behind the house and…<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"81943\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/18\/tweaks-and-adjustments-to-my-new-blog-theme\/great-horned-owl-5676-ron-dudley-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/great-horned-owl-5676-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"767,900\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"7.1","credit":"RON DUDLEY","camera":"Canon EOS 7D","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1277294827","copyright":"","focal_length":"700","iso":"250","shutter_speed":"0.004","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"great horned owl 5676 ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/great-horned-owl-5676-ron-dudley-256x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/great-horned-owl-5676-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-81943 size-full\" title=\"great-horned-owl-5676-ron-dudley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/great-horned-owl-5676-ron-dudley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"767\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/great-horned-owl-5676-ron-dudley.jpg 767w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/great-horned-owl-5676-ron-dudley-256x300.jpg 256w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/great-horned-owl-5676-ron-dudley-128x150.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>this is what I found – a youngster warming up in the morning sun in one of the auger cutouts of what we call the “big granary”. That 100′ long granary was built by my Grandpa Dudley in about 1930 so for me to photograph one of my beloved owls in it in perfect morning light has special meaning for me.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, enough nostalgia. Change is inevitable if not always welcome. I hope we can all get used to the changes on Feathered Photography but I suspect for some of us it might not be easy.<\/p>\n<p>Ron<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>and saying goodbye to a feature many of us will miss.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/18\/tweaks-and-adjustments-to-my-new-blog-theme\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49827,"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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[334,361,405,1493,360,442],"tags":[555,1510,159,220,4965,4961,4962,263,4963,4964],"class_list":["post-81940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birds","category-family-farm-in-northwest-montana","category-great-horned-owls-owls","category-montana-favorite-locations","category-red-rock-lakes-national-wildlife-refuge-favorite-locations","category-savannah-sparrows","tag-centennial-valley","tag-elk","tag-great-horned-owl","tag-montana-2","tag-montana-sunrise","tag-new-blog-theme","tag-pinch-and-zoom-feature","tag-red-rock-lakes-national-wildlife-refuge","tag-rotating-banner","tag-trumpeter-swan-recovery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/savannah-sparrow-5932b-ron-dudley.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zzJh-ljC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}