{"id":1925,"date":"2018-12-17T08:07:27","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T14:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/?p=1925"},"modified":"2018-12-17T08:07:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T14:07:27","slug":"owling-its-simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/2018\/12\/17\/owling-its-simple\/","title":{"rendered":"Owling&#8230;it&#8217;s Simple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" onmousedown=\"alert('Sorry ... you will need to contact me if you wish to use this photo')\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pbase.com\/photosbydennis\/image\/168551399\/large.jpg\" alt=\"photo courtesy of Dennis Swayze\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Number of factors come into play when attempting to photograph the Great White Owls from the North.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; first off you start by putting in many hours and driving many miles in order to succeed.<br \/>\n&#8211; you would need to search out locations with habitat that may provide a good food source.<br \/>\n&#8211; areas with signs, posts and poles are something the owls use to perch on and hunt from.<br \/>\n&#8211; understanding not every owl is cooperative and many fly off before getting a chance to lift the camera.<br \/>\n&#8211; direction of approach&#8230;paying attention to location of the sun and taking into account any wind<br \/>\n&#8211; patience&#8230;slow and easy is the best bet and can take minutes or hours.<br \/>\n&#8211; attempting to anticipate what may occur&#8230;sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn&#8217;t.<br \/>\n&#8211; it&#8217;s just that simple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Number of factors come into play when attempting to photograph the Great White Owls from the North. &#8211; first off you start by putting in many hours and driving many miles in order to succeed. &#8211; you would need to search out locations with habitat that may provide a good food source. &#8211; areas with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-1925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mb-owls","tag-snowy-owl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1926,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions\/1926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}