{"id":988,"date":"2010-03-06T02:23:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T06:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/?p=988"},"modified":"2011-02-24T14:24:46","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T18:24:46","slug":"midway-with-joe-van-os","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/2010\/03\/06\/midway-with-joe-van-os\/","title":{"rendered":"Midway with Joe Van Os!"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td>ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>There are more than a million Laysan Albatrosses on Midway Island. This displaying bird was photographed with the Canon 70-200mm f\/4L IS lens with the 1.4X II TC handheld at 202mm with the EOS-1D MIV. ISO 400. Evaluative metering +2\/3 stop: 1\/3200 at f\/5.6. As always, you can click on each image to see a larger, sharper version.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Not even the mid-morning drizzle that turned into a cold shower could put the damper on the non-stop photographic\u00a0opportunities here on Midway Island, a five hour flight from Pearl Harbor. I am co-leading a Joseph Van Os Photo Safari with Joe himself and nobody knows Midway like Joe. He has consistently had the group in the right spot at the right time. Though I am a conservative shooter I havebeen creating more than 1000 images each day and those include more than a few good ones of some amazing species. I shall share several of my early favorites<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>ngg_shortcode_1_placeholder<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>This displaying pair of endangered Black-footed Albatross was photographed with the Canon 70-200mm f\/4L IS lens with the 1.4X II TC and the EOS-1D MIV handheld at 202 mm. ISO 400&quot; 1\/1250 sec. at f\/7.1 set manually after histogram check.   There are about 100,000 of this great bird on Midway during the breeding season including non-breeders and chicks.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> ngg_shortcode_2_placeholder There are more than a million Laysan Albatrosses on Midway Island. This displaying bird was photographed with the Canon 70-200mm f\/4L IS lens with the 1.4X II TC handheld at 202mm with the EOS-1D MIV. ISO 400. Evaluative metering +2\/3 stop: 1\/3200 at f\/5.6. As always, you can click on each image to [&#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":[89,8,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-89","category-ipt-reports","category-midway-2010","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","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=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}