{"id":26,"date":"2007-08-19T23:17:44","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T04:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weblog.larkvi.com\/2007\/08\/19\/beaver-yellowstone-np-summer-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-08-19T23:17:44","modified_gmt":"2007-08-20T04:17:44","slug":"beaver-yellowstone-np-summer-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/photography\/beaver-yellowstone-np-summer-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Beaver, Yellowstone NP, Summer 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/gallery\/2007_yellowstone_beaver_01.jpg\" title=\"Beaver, Yellowstone National Park, Summer 2007\" alt=\"Beaver, Yellowstone National Park, Summer 2007\" height=\"427\" width=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This was one of the fattest beaver I had ever seen, and certainly the friendliest. On a tip that the beaver frequented the same spot on the shore at the same time every day, I watched for it three times. The first time I was on a tripod with a telephoto lens, but it was so unafraid of me that it came much to close to photograph&#8211;so close, in fact, that it was at one point standing on my foot, at which point I stopped trying to be still and startled the animal so much that it left. The second time, it showed early, and I missed it. The third time, I put on my 100mm macro lens and lay down on the ground, to avoid the problem of the first time, but still I had trouble with the animal coming too close, even after I retreated several times.<\/p>\n<p>To compound the problems associated with depth-of-field at close distances, the animal was late this time, and the light was fading, necessitating a lower shutter speed and larger aperture than I would have preferred, making for a lot of missed frames.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was one of the fattest beaver I had ever seen, and certainly the friendliest. On a tip that the beaver frequented the same spot on the shore at the same time every day, I watched for it three times. The first time I was on a tripod with a telephoto lens, but it was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/photography\/beaver-yellowstone-np-summer-2007\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beaver, Yellowstone NP, Summer 2007&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.larkvi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}