{"id":470,"date":"2016-10-30T13:38:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T18:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rootriverphotography.com\/news\/?p=470"},"modified":"2016-11-16T13:43:46","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T19:43:46","slug":"minnesota-moose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rootriverphotography.com\/news\/?p=470","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Moose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago I spotted a bull moose out in the field. Quickly grabbing the\u00a0camera I made a few images while hand holding the 300mm lens. He didn\u2019t seem bothered, so I quietly started setting up the tripod and attached the 500mm to hopefully get a better view of this nice looking bull. He was easily over a hundred yards away. As I walked my gear to the other side of the gravel road the bull started backing up. Shoot! I started talking to him letting him<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">\u00a0know I meant him no harm. This is not an unusual reaction for me, and I should note that Tom has reminded me many times that I\u2019m not actually living in a Disney movie.\u00a0To my surprise another bull stood up and began walking toward the original subject in my viewfinder. Now that was cool! Even better, was that for a few moments the two aligned nicely for this image.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-471\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rootriverphotography.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/MNMoose_SE3A7964-copy.jpg\" alt=\"mnmoose_se3a7964-copy\" width=\"854\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rootriverphotography.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/MNMoose_SE3A7964-copy.jpg 854w, https:\/\/www.rootriverphotography.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/MNMoose_SE3A7964-copy-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rootriverphotography.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/MNMoose_SE3A7964-copy-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rootriverphotography.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/MNMoose_SE3A7964-copy-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 854px) 100vw, 854px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">A couple of weeks ago I spotted a bull moose out in the field. Quickly grabbing the\u00a0camera I made a few images while hand holding the 300mm lens. He didn\u2019t seem bothered, so I quietly started setting up the tripod and attached the 500mm to hopefully get a better view of this nice looking bull. He was easily over a&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rootriverphotography.com\/news\/?p=470\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everyday-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rootriverphotography.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rootriverphotography.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rootriverphotography.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootriverphotography.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootriverphotography.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootriverphotography.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootriverphotography.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rootriverphotography.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootriverphotography.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rootriverphotography.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}