{"id":4837,"date":"2014-03-03T09:01:04","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T14:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p4td.lightshedder.com\/?p=4837"},"modified":"2014-03-03T09:01:04","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T14:01:04","slug":"la-jolla-seal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=4837","title":{"rendered":"La Jolla Seal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We drove up to the Scripps Park area of La Jolla yesterday in the pouring rain. It had let up by the time we found parking and started walking up the coast to the rocks where the Sea Lions congregate…and it stayed more or less dry as we walked back down to Children’s Pool where the Harbor Seals are birthing and feeding young on the beach. It was not the best light for photography, but with Brant’s Cormorant and Brown Pelicans in breeding plumage, and many Anna’s Hummingbirds and Song Sparrows working the bushes along the cliff-top, as well as the Sea Lions and Seals, I brought back enough images so it took me every spare moment all afternoon and into the evening to process them. \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n

The weather did keep the numbers of Sunday Morning tourists down, so I was able, for the first time, to go down the stairs at the Children’s Pool and get this close-up portrait of a Harbor Seal. It was taken at just under 500mm equivalent with the Olympus OM-D E-M10 and the 75-300mm zoom. ISO 1600 @ 1\/1000th @ f6.4. I would rather of used a lower ISO, but I am still practicing hand-holding the long zoom and needed the shutter speed. <\/p>\n

Processed in Snapseed on the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014.<\/p>\n

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