{"id":551,"date":"2010-05-23T08:50:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T12:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/?p=551"},"modified":"2010-05-23T08:50:53","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T12:50:53","slug":"one-of-my-favorite-florida-locations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/one-of-my-favorite-florida-locations\/","title":{"rendered":"One of My Favorite Florida Locations"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love photographing in Florida. The diversity of and access to wildlife is hard to beat anywhere. I had the opportunity to visit Palm Beach County this past week. I used the time to visit one of my favorite places, Jupiter Beach Park<\/strong><\/a>. The park is a fantastic place to photograph at sunrise. The assortment of birds that I see regularly there are Ruddy Turnstones, Brown Pelicans, Common Terns and Least Terns. I have also occasionally photographed Osprey, Great and Snowy Egrets and Laughing Gulls at this location. Oh yeah, there are a group of regulars here that feed the pigeons each morning, so if you want pigeon pictures, this location will fill your CF card!
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Ruddy Turnstone on a rock<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

There is a jetty to walk on which you can capture people habituated Ruddy Turnstones like the photograph above. There is also a long stretch of beach you can walk as well. That is where I shot the Ruddy Turnstone image below.
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Ruddy Turnstone in Rippling Wave<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

In order to prepare for this trip, I looked at some past images from the park to figure out how I could improve on the images I already had in my files. As a result I came away with 2 goals for this trip. 1) Take images with cleaner backgrounds. As you can see in the first image, I went to great lengths to ensure that I captured as much of the inlet behind the bird as possible, limiting anything that would be a distraction to my subject. 2) Find some emotion and pull some heart strings with the images I took. <\/p>\n

I think I was successful with goal number 1. The images I came away with on this trip were much better than those of the past. This is good, it means as a photographer I am improving my skills and craft. An essential trait to any business. On the second goal I was less successful. I tried to pull emotion by photographing many, and I mean many, of the Ruddy Turnstones I saw limping around the beach. Why were they limping? Their feet were tied with fishing line, an unfortunate consequence of foraging near fishermen. However I did not pull off telling that story the way I wanted. I also snapped a few pictures of an Osprey flying overhead with a fish in its talons but did not have the right light in order to bring true emotion to that image.<\/p>\n

The closest I came to pulling emotion was this photograph of a least tern preparing to drop into the water at sunrise. At least it stirred emotion in me!
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Least Tern Preparing to dive into the water<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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