{"id":3284,"date":"2014-06-09T07:30:19","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T11:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/?p=3284"},"modified":"2014-06-08T19:47:43","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T23:47:43","slug":"connecticut-trail-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/connecticut-trail-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut Trail Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctwoodlands.org\/CT-TDW2014\"><strong>CT Trail Days<\/strong><\/a>.  Since the weather was spectacular I thought I would visit a local nature center to celebrate :-).  <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3285\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 500px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/connecticut-trail-days\/_vnm3098-as-smart-object-1-copy\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3285\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/VNM3098-as-Smart-Object-1-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Eastern Cottontail\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/VNM3098-as-Smart-Object-1-copy.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/VNM3098-as-Smart-Object-1-copy-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eastern Cottontail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I have to admit that I do not particularly like any of these images, it was just nice to get out, hike for a few hours and make some images. The location I visited was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newcanaannature.org\"><strong>New Canaan Nature Center<\/strong><\/a>. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3286\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 500px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/connecticut-trail-days\/_vnm3004-as-smart-object-1-copy\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3286\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/VNM3004-as-Smart-Object-1-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Chipping Sparrow\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/VNM3004-as-Smart-Object-1-copy.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/VNM3004-as-Smart-Object-1-copy-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chipping Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Away from the Red Bellied Woodpecker, the other backgrounds are too busy for my liking&#8230;.and style.  I like natural settings, I just like cleaner backgrounds.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3287\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 333px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/connecticut-trail-days\/_vnm2993-as-smart-object-1-copy\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3287\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/VNM2993-as-Smart-Object-1-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Red Bellied Woodpecker Peek-A-Boo\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/VNM2993-as-Smart-Object-1-copy.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/VNM2993-as-Smart-Object-1-copy-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red Bellied Woodpecker Peek-A-Boo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3288\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 333px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/connecticut-trail-days\/_vnm2914-as-smart-object-1-copy\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3288\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/VNM2914-as-Smart-Object-1-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Red Bellied Woodpecker\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/VNM2914-as-Smart-Object-1-copy.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/VNM2914-as-Smart-Object-1-copy-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red Bellied Woodpecker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ideally I think this location wood be best photographed with a tripod while sitting in one spot.  I think my movement had the effect of scurrying the wildlife.  That is a little odd for a public location, you would think the wildlife was more acclimated to people.  However, that won&#8217;t stop me from returning.<\/p>\n<p>Images captured with Nikon D4s and 80-400 VR III on Lexar digital film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend was CT Trail Days. Since the weather was spectacular I thought I would visit a local nature center to celebrate :-). I have to admit that I do not particularly like any of these images, it was just nice to get out, hike for a few hours and make some images. The location [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-wildlife"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyuQ8-QY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}