{"id":268,"date":"2014-04-16T00:23:15","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T00:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/culture-connection.net\/gcphoto1\/?page_id=268"},"modified":"2025-04-14T17:55:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T21:55:06","slug":"birds","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/culture-connection.net\/gcphoto1\/stories-2\/birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_498\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-498\" style=\"width: 198px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/culture-connection.net\/gcphoto1\/wp-content\/uploads\/GC_6097.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/culture-connection.net\/gcphoto1\/wp-content\/uploads\/GC_6097-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bird Feeder Photos\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/culture-connection.net\/gcphoto1\/wp-content\/uploads\/GC_6097-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/culture-connection.net\/gcphoto1\/wp-content\/uploads\/GC_6097.jpg 662w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-498\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Storm Approaching<\/figcaption><\/figure>The first place I look each morning is toward the feeders outside the kitchen window, where the drama that is life unfolds. As I watch and marvel at these tiny creatures in their struggle for survival, they remind me of how we lose touch with our own basic needs in our all-too-complicated lives.<\/p>\n<p>It is easy to observe how birds are instinctively affected by their surroundings. An oncoming storm can cause a feeding frenzy, or a hungry hawk can cause a hasty retreat to nearby trees.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to common practice in photographing birds, many of my most dramatic photographs have been taken in very low light with shutter speeds too slow to freeze their movements. I&#8217;ve had to attune myself to the birds&#8217; rhythms and catch their moment of stillness to take the shot.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first place I look each morning is toward the feeders outside the kitchen window, where the drama that is life unfolds. As I watch and marvel at these tiny creatures in their struggle for survival, they remind me of how we lose touch with our own basic needs in our all-too-complicated lives. It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":114,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-268","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture-connection.net\/gcphoto1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture-connection.net\/gcphoto1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture-connection.net\/gcphoto1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture-connection.net\/gcphoto1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture-connection.net\/gcphoto1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/culture-connection.net\/gcphoto1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18893,"href":"https:\/\/culture-connection.net\/gcphoto1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268\/revisions\/18893"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture-connection.net\/gcphoto1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture-connection.net\/gcphoto1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}