{"id":107402,"date":"2022-10-20T04:05:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T10:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=107402"},"modified":"2022-10-20T05:23:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T11:23:23","slug":"jordan-river-mallard-drake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2022\/10\/20\/jordan-river-mallard-drake\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan River Mallard Drake"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"JordanJordan River Mallard drake in low light \u2013 Nikon D500, handheld, f7.1, 1\/100, ISO 1000, Nikkor 70-300mm VR at 300mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

I took this low light Mallard drake photo yesterday while I walked along the Jordan River in the chill of the early morning. The cottonwood trees lining the river bank meant I had shade where this drake and a Mallard hen were foraging in the fast moving water.<\/p>\n

Even though I was hand holding the camera, I managed to capture the duck sharp enough to my liking despite my shutter speed being slow enough to blur the water in the background. The water dripping from the drake’s bill was a messy blurry though.<\/p>\n

This was the one and only photo that I took yesterday that I liked well enough to share.<\/p>\n

Mallards are very abundant in my area yet I don’t like to pass up opportunities to photograph them. This time of the year the drake Mallards can look pretty sharp in their breeding plumage. It still excites me to have them in my viewfinder.<\/p>\n

Later in the morning when the light was better on the river I walked by where the mallards had been and found that they had moved on.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Mallard photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I took this low light Mallard drake photo yesterday while I walked along the Jordan River in the chill of the early morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,965,709,26],"tags":[4004,4237,970,4483,1129,126,4620,5556,501,13400,156,4062,1604,5558,8018,3996,2063],"class_list":["post-107402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-mallards","category-salt-lake-county-utah","category-utah","tag-adult","tag-anas-platyrhynchos","tag-autumn","tag-drake","tag-duck","tag-ducks-2","tag-fall","tag-jordan-river","tag-jordan-river-parkway-trail","tag-jordan-river-trail","tag-low-light-2","tag-male","tag-mallard","tag-river","tag-urban","tag-water","tag-waterfowl"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t