{"id":3806,"date":"2006-06-20T19:30:05","date_gmt":"2006-06-21T00:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2006\/06\/20\/scenes-from-a-bike-ride\/"},"modified":"2024-09-21T11:42:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T16:42:00","slug":"scenes-from-a-bike-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2006\/06\/20\/scenes-from-a-bike-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Scenes from a bike ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-twentytwentyone-border\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"504\" height=\"504\" src=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/owl3-gigapixel20x.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/owl3-gigapixel20x.jpg 504w, https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/owl3-gigapixel20x-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/owl3-gigapixel20x-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/owl3-gigapixel20x-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/owl3-gigapixel20x-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-twentytwentyone-border\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"504\" height=\"564\" src=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/owl1-gigapixel20x.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/owl1-gigapixel20x.jpg 504w, https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/owl1-gigapixel20x-268x300.jpg 268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-twentytwentyone-border\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"504\" height=\"564\" src=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/owl2-gigapixel20x.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/owl2-gigapixel20x.jpg 504w, https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/owl2-gigapixel20x-268x300.jpg 268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><span class=\"smaller\">Shutter: 1\/1000 sec; F-stop 9.0; Aperture: 6.3;<br>ISO Equiv. 400; Focal length: 55mm; uncropped image: 8mpxl;<br>Camera: Canon Digital Rebel XT<br>[Update &#8211; 2024: Enlarged\/enhanced with Topaz Gigapixel AI]<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some lessons I learned from this morning&#8217;s ride:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Never assume that a camera on a bicycle is wasted dead weight;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Don&#8217;t underestimate the patience of a pair of burrowing owls perched on telephone lines;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Likewise, the importance of a good lens and a bunch of megapixels cannot be overstated;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>And last but not least&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Skill counts for a lot in photography, but so does blind luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capturing nature on &#8220;film&#8221; midway through a morning bike ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,29,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photography","category-west-texas","category-wildlife-birds","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3806"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14290,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806\/revisions\/14290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}