{"id":123417,"date":"2018-09-28T04:35:02","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T02:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/well-hello-there\/"},"modified":"2018-09-28T04:35:02","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T02:35:02","slug":"well-hello-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/well-hello-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, hello there!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Well, hello there!<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"South Africa\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4034\/4472910138_1384505660.jpg\" width=\"700\"\/><br \/>\n<i>Image by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/36595580@N08\/4472910138\">Pim Stouten<\/a><\/i><br \/>\nWe &#8216;caught&#8217; this Spotted Eagle Owl during an evening game drive from Ntshondwe Camp in Ithala NP.<\/p>\n<p>Standard accessory during such drives are a couple of powerful torches or spotlights to try and spot animals close to the road. That particular evening had a very good &#8216;score&#8217;: more than half a dozen of owls quite close up, a couple of nightjars, and black rhino with calf.<\/p>\n<p>Spotting animals using lights isn&#8217;t too difficult, but taking pictures is&#8230;<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s ample light for you to see the animal in detail, but it&#8217;s barely sufficient to take a decent picture.<br \/>\nOpen safari vehicles mean you&#8217;re more or less limited to shoot hand-held, this one was shot wide open @ ISO 3200 (hence the pixel noise) and a shutter speed of 1\/60s. Not bad, for hand-holding a body-lense combo of appr. 5kg (10lb)! Unaltered, uncropped image, no post-porcessing whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>For some silly reason the GPS coordinates recorded with this pic are way off (way too far to the southeast), I&#8217;ll try to fix that sometime.<\/p>\n<p>\nThis <em>South Africa<\/em> image was automatically curated and published with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/wprobot.net\/?ref=578\" target=\"_blank\">WP Robot<\/a> plugin &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/wprobot.net\/?ref=578\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE<\/a> to learn more about <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/wprobot.net\/?ref=578\" target=\"_blank\">WP Robot for WordPress<\/a> &#8211; a massive time and money saver.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCgzgeTm3pKPjkFy4WHrH8xA\">Visit the MyPE YouTube Channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, hello there! Image by Pim Stouten We &#8216;caught&#8217; this Spotted Eagle Owl during an evening game drive from Ntshondwe Camp in Ithala NP. Standard accessory during such drives are a couple of powerful torches or spotlights to try and spot animals close to the road. That particular evening had a very good &#8216;score&#8217;: more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_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}},"categories":[9014],"tags":[11893,5324,5356],"class_list":{"0":"post-123417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-images","7":"tag-hello","8":"tag-there","9":"tag-well","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}