{"id":2131,"date":"2022-07-24T17:58:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T07:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2131-a-new-aerial-perspective.html"},"modified":"2022-07-24T17:58:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T07:28:00","slug":"a-new-aerial-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2131-a-new-aerial-perspective.html","title":{"rendered":"A New Aerial Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:2791 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1923-DJI_0051-2-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\nBird hides are a great place to observe wildlife behaviour but as a photographer you are stuck in a fixed location. Wearing full camouflage over a wetsuit and risking gear in the water is one option but not something you pop out and do during a lunch break.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis is my first opportunity to try out a telephoto lens mounted to a drone as an option for wildlife images and even though the image quality is not amazing from my 12MP \u00bd inch sensor,  the results are still quite stunning.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis image was captured with the drone hovering just above the water quite some distance away from the swan\u2019s nest. At a full frame equivalent focal length of 162mm, the fact that the camera is being held as stable as a tripod is nothing short of an engineering marvel and I can wait to explore this new found capability.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nBack to that quip about popping out for a lunch break, well yes this was indeed just such a photo opportunity.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n#Magazinecreek #blackswan #nest #swans #aerial #telephoto #wildlife #birds #waterbirds #nesting #southaustralia #photography<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bird hides are a great place to observe wildlife behaviour but as a photographer you are stuck in a fixed location. Wearing full camouflage over a wetsuit and risking gear in the water is one option but not something you pop out and do during a lunch break. This is my first opportunity to try &#8230; <a title=\"A New Aerial Perspective\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2131-a-new-aerial-perspective.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about A New Aerial Perspective\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}