{"id":9,"date":"2009-06-08T15:45:14","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T20:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/?p=9"},"modified":"2009-09-09T21:37:29","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T01:37:29","slug":"a-day-of-firsts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/a-day-of-firsts\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day of Firsts!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its fitting that my first trip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/glac\/\">Glacier NP<\/a> coincides with my first blog post.  I traveled to Montana to attend the Wildlife Photographers Base Camp hosted by the Peterson family, Moose, Sharon and Jake.  It was an incredible opportunity to learn from an icon about the business and techniques of wildlife photography.<br \/>\nMoose wasted no time getting us going as sunrise called the first day and we were out at 6:00 AM (this was our latest start of the week).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_66\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 500px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Mistretta-Web-20090608-001-Blog.jpg\" alt=\"St. Mary Lake, Glacier National Park, Montana\" title=\"St. Mary Lake, Glacier National Park, Montana\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-66\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Mistretta-Web-20090608-001-Blog.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Mistretta-Web-20090608-001-Blog-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">St. Mary Lake, Glacier National Park, Montana<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Our afternoon shoot was even more exciting as we had the chance to photograph Black Bear, Rocky Mountain Big Horn Sheep and Elk.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_68\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 500px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Mistretta-Web-20090608-003-Blog.jpg\" alt=\"Black Bear, Glacier National Park, Montana\" title=\"Black Bear, Glacier National Park, Montana\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Mistretta-Web-20090608-003-Blog.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Mistretta-Web-20090608-003-Blog-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Bear, Glacier National Park, Montana<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I will post more images as time allows these next few days.  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