{"id":4146,"date":"2011-06-26T13:47:47","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T20:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/?p=4146"},"modified":"2013-05-14T16:38:46","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T23:38:46","slug":"you-never-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/you-never-know\/","title":{"rendered":"You Never Know!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110626.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Hummingbird in flight\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/20110626-188x125.jpg\" width=\"188\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a>While searching for a photo of the day in the desert this morning, I noticed this Hummingbird following me and I was sure I heard &#8220;I want to be on your blog today!&#8221; \ud83d\ude42 He was flitting back and forth among the branches of this Desert Hackberry so it was impossible to keep focus so I did what photographers did before auto focus and that&#8217;s &#8220;pre-focus&#8221;. I just manually focused on the center branch tip and kept my finger on the shutter knowing he would fly into focus at some point. You never know what you&#8217;ll get but you won&#8217;t get anything if you don&#8217;t try, right? (Canon 60D, Sigma 18-250mm lens @ 250mm. ISO 200, 1000th sec at f\/5.6)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While searching for a photo of the day in the desert this morning, I noticed this Hummingbird following me and I was sure I heard &#8220;I want to be on your blog today!&#8221; \ud83d\ude42 He was flitting back and forth among the branches of this Desert Hackberry so it was impossible to keep focus so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,64,28,58,57],"tags":[736,237,988,252],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4146"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4149,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146\/revisions\/4149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}