{"id":106,"date":"2012-03-28T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=106"},"modified":"2014-10-01T02:59:48","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T02:59:48","slug":"a-caveat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"A caveat*"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/lot13terns.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/lot13terns-300x200.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Photographing terns on a nude beach requires careful cropping.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;; )  <\/p>\n<p>So my dilemma was this: resist the opportunity to photograph the royal terns, laughing gulls, willets and black-bellied plovers loafing together in the sunshine at Playalinda Beach on the Cape Canaveral National Seashore or bare (tee hee!) with the discomfort of using a camera amid a bunch of naked people.<\/p>\n<p>I chose the assumption that those folks wouldn&#8217;t mind the long-as-my-arm telephoto lens so long as I didn&#8217;t ever point it directly at them. I never figured on them to walk purposefully, almost, and repeatedly through my frame. Or to approach me, full-frontal(!), to talk camera gear.<\/p>\n<p>What was I thinking!!!<\/p>\n<p>Never again, never again.<\/p>\n<p>Lesson learned.<\/p>\n<p><i>*parts of this photo have been excessively blurred in deference to the comfort of readers.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographing terns on a nude beach requires careful cropping. &nbsp;; ) So my dilemma was this: resist the opportunity to photograph the royal terns, laughing gulls, willets and black-bellied plovers loafing together in the sunshine at Playalinda Beach on the Cape Canaveral National Seashore or bare (tee hee!) with the discomfort of using a camera &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=106\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A caveat*<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,14,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}