{"id":7658,"date":"2010-10-26T02:53:10","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T09:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/?p=7658"},"modified":"2010-10-26T02:53:10","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T09:53:10","slug":"great-blue-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/?p=7658","title":{"rendered":"Great Blue Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We came upon this Great Blue Heron, perched statuesque above a leash-free dog area. The dog walkers didn&#8217;t look up. Neither did the dogs. But my eye is always looking for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/2010\/07\/a-chorus-of-one\/\">the anomaly<\/a> in the landscape. And there she was: a big, blue anomaly, framed by parched leaves &#8212; the last trembling breaths of summer. She eyed my lens for a few seconds, then drifted off into heron dreams. I assume herons dream . . .  of heron things. The birds I&#8217;ve known do, talking in their sleep in little whimpers, while nodding off to the rustle of bird feet in twigs.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7671\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/heron860.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7671\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/heron860.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"heron860\" width=\"750\" height=\"560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7671\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7671\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great Blue Heron Perch - \u00a9ingridtaylar<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_7661\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/gbheyesclosed.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7661\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/gbheyesclosed.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"gbheyesclosed\" width=\"500\" height=\"372\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7661\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7661\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great Blue Heron Dreams - \u00a9ingridtaylar<\/p><\/div>\n<p><i>The Photos: The sky was blown out in overcast, but I liked the isolating effect the white background had on the heron. Shot at a distance and cropped. I added a bit of contrast and sharpness to the RAW file. I&#8217;m always gratified when a bird finds my uninteresting enough to sleep or preen in my presence. I feel as though I&#8217;ve done my job right, when I can capture the image without stressing the animal into unnatural behavior.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We came upon this Great Blue Heron, perched statuesque above a leash-free dog area. The dog walkers didn&#8217;t look up. Neither did the dogs. But my eye is always looking &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[504],"class_list":["post-7658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","tag-herons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}