{"id":7339,"date":"2015-08-06T06:53:24","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T10:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p4td.lightshedder.com\/?p=7339"},"modified":"2015-08-06T07:01:54","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T11:01:54","slug":"blaze-of-blazing-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=7339","title":{"rendered":"Blaze of Blazing Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 2010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/wpid7337-DSC05207.jpg?resize=904%2C678\" alt=\"\" width=\"904\" height=\"678\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Northern Blazing Star, Kennebunk Plains Wildlife Management Area, ME<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For the next two days I will be in a van with my daughter Sarah, helping her move from Pittsburgh to Santa Fe, NM, and then we move on from there to Tucson for a birding festival. It seems I am always traveling at the height of the Blazing Star bloom on the Kennebunk Plains Wildlife Management Area. This year I might have just caught the forward edge to of the peak. \ud83d\ude42 It will not get much better than this, but it will get better. I shot this at a fairly long telephoto to compress the mass of blooms.<\/p>\n<p>Sony HX90V at 520mm equivalent field of view. 1\/400th @ ISO 80 @ f6.3. 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