{"id":2159,"date":"2011-05-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/photos\/cinco-de-marco\/"},"modified":"2011-05-04T16:47:46","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T22:47:46","slug":"be-ready-for-good-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/photos\/be-ready-for-good-luck\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Ready for Good Luck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I walk around the neighborhood, I take my camera. If I don&#8217;t, I&#8217;m sure to see a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mjhinton\/tags\/roadrunners\/\">roadrunner<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mjhinton\/tags\/hawks\/\">hawk<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mjhinton\/tags\/merlins\/\">merlin<\/a>. I don&#8217;t know if there is ONE best photography tip, but this one is on my short list: <strong>Be Ready<\/strong>. Ready means camera in hand, on, lens cap off.<\/p>\n<p>Four years ago tomorrow, I saw this hummingbird hovering just above a claret cup cactus, as I rounded a corner close to home. Imagine me standing in the middle of the street, stopping the dog in his tracks as I juggle leash and camera, frantic that I will miss this great shot, trying not to think of the cars that frequently roar around corners blindly. Fortunately for me, this was one patient <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mjhinton\/tags\/hummingbirds\/\">hummingbird<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"hummingbird and claret cup cactus\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mjhinton\/486959546\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"hummingbird and claret cup cactus\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/171\/486959546_7b9ae70ebd.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"402\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"hummingbird and claret cup cactus -- cropped\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mjhinton\/486989861\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"hummingbird and claret cup cactus -- cropped\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/230\/486989861_db4397f871.jpg\" width=\"417\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I&#8217;ve missed a lot of great shots over the years, ready or not. And taken plenty of crappy shots with all the time in the world. I&#8217;m grateful for what I <em>see<\/em>. <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p>\n<p>PS: Now, I wear a carabiner to hold the leash, so both hands are free. And the dog has learned to stop on a dime. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/photos\/luke-the-love-hound\/\">Luke is a good photo-dog<\/a>, as was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/the-atheists-pulpit\/lucky-dog-2\/\">Lucky<\/a> before him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I walk around the neighborhood, I take my camera. If I don&#8217;t, I&#8217;m sure to see a roadrunner, hawk, or merlin. I don&#8217;t know if there is ONE best photography tip, but this one is on my short list: Be Ready. Ready means camera in hand, on, lens cap off. Four years ago tomorrow, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/photos\/be-ready-for-good-luck\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Be Ready for Good Luck<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[104,103,102],"class_list":["post-2159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","tag-birds","tag-hummingbirds","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}