{"id":5508,"date":"2012-12-19T17:05:22","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T00:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/?p=5508"},"modified":"2022-12-31T03:24:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T19:24:37","slug":"brown-pelican-and-belt-of-venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/brown-pelican-and-belt-of-venus.html","title":{"rendered":"Brown Pelican and Belt of Venus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I set up to make <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/brown_pelican_photo.html\">photographs of brown pelicans<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Pelecanus_occidentalis_californicus\"><em>Pelecanus occidentalis californicus<\/em><\/a>) in front of the thin pastel colors of the &#8220;belt of Venus&#8221;, or &#8220;Earth Shadow&#8221;, that forms just above the horizon at dawn and dusk when atmospheric conditions are favorable. If you can&#8217;t envision what the Belt of Venus looks like, check it out on this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=22213\">photograph of Earth Shadow over Morro Rock<\/a>. Cheers and thanks for looking!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Brown pelican in flight, softly lit by flash against pink pr...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=28346\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Brown pelican in flight, softly lit by flash against pink predawn sky, Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus, La Jolla, California\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/stock-photo\/brown-pelican-pink-predawn-sky-image-28346-231835.jpg\" alt=\"Brown pelican in flight, softly lit by flash against pink predawn sky, Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus, La Jolla, California\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Brown pelican in flight, softly lit by flash against pink predawn sky<br \/>\nImage ID: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=28346\">28346<\/a><br \/>\nSpecies: <a title=\"Brown Pelican photos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/brown_pelican_photo.html\">Brown Pelican<\/a>, <a title=\"Pelecanus occidentalis photos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Pelecanus_occidentalis\"><i>Pelecanus occidentalis<\/i><\/a>, <a title=\"Pelecanus occidentalis californicus photos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Pelecanus_occidentalis_californicus\"><i>Pelecanus occidentalis californicus<\/i><\/a><br \/>\nLocation: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?city=la_jolla&amp;state=california&amp;country=usa\">La Jolla<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?state=california&amp;country=usa\">California<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?country=usa\">USA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve compiled my thoughts on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/articles-reports-and-downloads\">photographing California brown pelicans in La Jolla<\/a> in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/articles-reports-and-downloads\">PDF article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you like these photos, you can also see lots more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/category\/wildlife\/pelican\">blog posts from past sessions photographing California brown pelicans in La Jolla<\/a>. Or, I&#8217;ve got a gallery of some keepers on my website, but most of the good ones from the last couple years I have not even gotten around to captioning and putting the web yet: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/brown_pelican_photos.html\">California Brown Pelican photo gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I set up to make photographs of brown pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis californicus) in front of the thin pastel colors of the &#8220;belt of Venus&#8221;, or &#8220;Earth Shadow&#8221;, that forms just above the horizon at dawn and dusk when atmospheric conditions are favorable. If you can&#8217;t envision what the Belt of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,193],"tags":[212,303],"class_list":{"0":"post-5508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pelicans-of-la-jolla","8":"category-seabird","9":"tag-birds","10":"tag-pelicans"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}