{"id":1448,"date":"2015-03-22T01:30:17","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T01:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fivecedars.com\/?p=1448"},"modified":"2015-05-19T07:48:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T07:48:18","slug":"great-blue-heron-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivecedars.com\/great-blue-heron-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Blue Heron 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I photographed this Great Blue Heron in 2011 near Alexandria Bay NY.<br \/>\nThe rain was pouring down and all I had was my d40 Nikon with the 18-55mm kit lens.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/fivecedars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/heron-1024x682-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Great Blue Heron 2011\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fivecedars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/heron-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/fivecedars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/heron-1024x682-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/fivecedars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/heron-1024x682-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since that time I have found better lenses are key to wild life photography.  And patience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I photographed this Great Blue Heron in 2011 near Alexandria Bay NY. The rain was pouring down and all I had was my d40 Nikon with the 18-55mm kit lens. Since that time I have found better lenses are key to wild life photography. And patience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Great Blue Heron 2011 - Five Cedars<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Great Blue Heron shot in 2011 during a rain storm.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivecedars.com\/great-blue-heron-2011\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Great Blue Heron 2011 - Five Cedars\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Great Blue Heron shot in 2011 during a rain storm.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/fivecedars.com\/great-blue-heron-2011\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Five Cedars\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-03-22T01:30:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-05-19T07:48:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/fivecedars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/heron-1024x682-1024x682.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Tom Roberts\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Tom Roberts\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fivecedars.com\/great-blue-heron-2011\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/fivecedars.com\/great-blue-heron-2011\/\",\"name\":\"Great Blue Heron 2011 - 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