{"id":20454,"date":"2018-07-22T16:17:59","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T21:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=20454"},"modified":"2018-07-22T16:32:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T21:32:21","slug":"if-you-want-a-green-frog-you-may-have-to-get-into-the-swamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=20454","title":{"rendered":"If You Want a Green Frog, You May Have to Get Into the Swamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20458\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/180701-green-frog-7D2-0472-w7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20458\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20458\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/180701-green-frog-7D2-0472-w7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"501\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20458\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green Frog, Seney National Wildlife Refuge, Michigan&#8217;s U.P.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you want a nice image of a frog, you have to go where the frogs are. And that means getting down in the swamp or bog or whatever other wet place the frog happens to be.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So it is a good idea to be prepared. When I am on a serious photo expedition, I have a towel, spare shoes, and spare socks in the car in case I get my feet really wet.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20456\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/180701-Brittany-7D2-0431-w7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20456\" class=\"wp-image-20456 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/180701-Brittany-7D2-0431-w7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20456\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photographer in pursuit of a green frog. Seney National Wildlife Refuge.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There were plenty of frogs in this pond and several of them were close to the edge of the pond. I use the word &#8220;edge&#8221; loosely. It was not like a lake with a well defined edge between water and dry ground. The closer we got to the pond the wetter and spongier it got. The vegetation around the pond was thick. As I walked on the spongy grasses I could hear the gurgle of water under my feet as I approached the frog I wanted to photograph. To get the angle I wanted, I had to sit down. It felt pretty damp. But the frog was cooperative so getting a little wet was a small price to pay for a good photo.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20463\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/180611-MI-workshop-trip-iP-0809-w7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20463\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20463\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/180611-MI-workshop-trip-iP-0809-w7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"439\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20463\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photography field trip. Seney National Wildlife Refuge.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Seney National Wildlife Refuge is one of my favorite places on the planet. It is called one of the &#8220;crown jewels&#8221; of the US wildlife refuge system. Each summer Seney is one of the field trip locations for my Northern Michigan photography workshop. If you love wildlife and wetlands, Seney is a great place to go. It is a few miles north of Germfask in Michigan&#8217;s Upper Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fws.gov\/refuge\/seney\/\">Seney National Wildlife Refuge<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jimdoty.com\/About\/teaching\/PoP-2019\/pop-2019.html\">2019 Total Immersion Nature Photography Workshop<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want a nice image of a frog, you have to go where the frogs are. And that means getting down in the swamp or bog or whatever other wet place the frog happens to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18,26,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-photo-locations","category-photographs","category-techniques"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20454"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20466,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20454\/revisions\/20466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}