{"id":1663,"date":"2014-02-10T00:19:49","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T07:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsrider.com\/blog\/?p=1663"},"modified":"2014-02-10T00:19:49","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T07:19:49","slug":"photos-of-the-day-saturday-feb-8-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/2014\/02\/10\/photos-of-the-day-saturday-feb-8-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos of the Day, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier in the day my wife and I had hiked through this section of woods and I scared up an Elk but did not have my camera ready. \u00a0In the afternoon I went back for another round of hiking and had my camera out and ready in this same stretch of woods. \u00a0On my right side I saw 4 mule deer start to move and I figured that they would cross the path in front of me. \u00a0I had my camera ready and got the shot, but the exposure was a bit dark. \u00a0I could see the deer standing off to my left and I changed the settings and increased the ISO so that I could maybe get a better shot.<\/p>\n

Little did I know that one of them would stop in the light and wait to see what I would do next.<\/p>\n

I did what I always do in this kind of case, I keep on shooting, actually holding the camera low because I have an articulating screen and I had tilted it up.<\/p>\n

\"deer1\"<\/p>\n

Although you can make out the outline and part of the face of a second deer on the edge of this image, I actually had no idea that I had captured the two of them in the next photo.<\/p>\n

\"deer3\"<\/p>\n

This entire little incident reminded me once again of the quote by Pasteur. \u00a0“In matters of observation, chance favors the prepared mind.”<\/p>\n

The first time I hiked, there was no favor, as I was totally unprepared.<\/p>\n

The second time, even though I left my big lenses home and only had my hiking camera with me, it still had a sufficient telephoto that enabled me to get the shot. \u00a0Right time, right place, right equipment and a deer that stopped to pose and then was joined by one of his group. \u00a0That’s a lot of luck there, but I’ll take what I can get.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier in the day my wife and I had hiked through this section of woods and I scared up an Elk but did not have my camera ready. \u00a0In the afternoon I went back for another round of hiking and had my camera out and ready in this same stretch of woods. \u00a0On my right […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,20],"tags":[72,139,140],"class_list":["post-1663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloudcroft-new-mexico","category-hiking-in-new-mexico","category-lincoln-national-forest","tag-chance-favors-the-prepared-mind","tag-mule-deer-in-cloudcroft-new-mexico","tag-mule-deer-in-the-forest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}