{"id":405,"date":"2012-09-05T22:51:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T12:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/405-366-days-of-2012-day-249-when-ducks-fly.html"},"modified":"2012-09-05T22:51:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T12:21:00","slug":"366-days-of-2012-day-249-when-ducks-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/405-366-days-of-2012-day-249-when-ducks-fly.html","title":{"rendered":"366 Days of 2012, Day 249 &#8211; When Ducks Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 --><a href=\"\/serendipity\/\" title=\"Robert&apos;s Ramblings\"><!-- s9ymdb:729 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1164\" height=\"567\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/249-_MG_3383.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nI never get over how strange it is to see ducks fly!<br \/>\n<br \/>\nGrowing up I only ever experienced ducks in ponds or waddling around a yard. For some reason this idea has stayed with me long since I learned the truth that they really do fly. This image taken along the  Torrens River after sunset still seems incredulous to me.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nTo capture this image I needed quote a fast shutter speed to render them fairly sharp in flight with minimal wing blur. I also needed a smallish aperture to get good details in the tree silhouettes and the details in the clouds. All up not an easy combination of constraints. I opted to shoot at 1600 ISO and compromise at F4.0.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;366 Days of 2012, Day 249 &#8211; When Ducks Fly&#8217;. 1\/1600s  f\/4.0 ISO-640 105mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never get over how strange it is to see ducks fly! Growing up I only ever experienced ducks in ponds or waddling around a yard. For some reason this idea has stayed with me long since I learned the truth that they really do fly. This image taken along the Torrens River after sunset &#8230; <a title=\"366 Days of 2012, Day 249 &#8211; When Ducks Fly\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/405-366-days-of-2012-day-249-when-ducks-fly.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about 366 Days of 2012, Day 249 &#8211; When Ducks Fly\">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-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","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=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}