{"id":1697,"date":"2010-05-16T19:44:18","date_gmt":"2010-05-16T23:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/?p=1697"},"modified":"2011-02-24T11:48:35","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T15:48:35","slug":"pick-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/2010\/05\/16\/pick-six\/","title":{"rendered":"Pick Six!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Below I present six totally different images.  As a group, they have something in common.  Leave a comment and let us know which is your favorite image and why.  (Actually, feel free to comment on all of the images if you wish&#8230;.)  And if you would like to hazard a guess as to what the images have in common, be my guest \ud83d\ude42  I will reveal my favorite on Thursday and let you  know the connection between the images. <\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>This image was created on Little St. Simons Island, GA with the Canon 500mm f\/4L IS lens, the 2X II teleconverter, and the EOS-40D.  (Manual focus).  Contrary to popular opinion, this image is pretty much right out of the camera: a pink omega sun!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>ngg_shortcode_1_placeholder<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>This Chinstrap Penguin image was created while photographing from a Zodiac near Coronation Island in the South Orkneys in the Southern Ocean with the handheld Canon 100-4oomm IS L zoom lens (at 180mm) and the EOS-1Ds MII as we pulled away from the iceberg for the second time.  (I had begged the Zodiac driver to return&#8230;.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>ngg_shortcode_2_placeholder<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>This image was created in Brunswick, Maine with the 14mm fish-eye lens and the EOS-1D MIII.  The big pile of leaves was on the lawn of the town library.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>ngg_shortcode_3_placeholder<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>This image is a six frame composite.  Each of the six vertical images was created with the Canon 800mm f.5.6  L IS lens and the EOS-1D Mark III. The images were stitched together in Photoshop CS-3 using File\/Automate\/Photomerge.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>ngg_shortcode_4_placeholder<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>This shorebird flock (mostly Sanderlings) was photographed at Cupsogue Beach Park, Long Island, NY with the Canon 800mm f\/5.6L IS lens and a pre-production model EOS-1D Mark IV using 45-point AI Servo AF.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>ngg_shortcode_5_placeholder<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>This image was created at Bosque del Apache NWR in San Antonio, NW with the Canon 800mm f\/5.6L IS lens, the 1.4X II teleconverter, and the EOS-1D Mark III.  Snow Geese and Sandhill Cranes in ground fog lit by the rising sun.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Let us know which is your favortie and why.  And if you wish, take a guess at what connects each of the images in the group.   Even a wild guess will work \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below I present six totally different images. As a group, they have something in common. Leave a comment and let us know which is your favorite image and why. (Actually, feel free to comment on all of the images if you wish&#8230;.) And if you would like to hazard a guess as to what the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[89,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-89","category-misc","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}