{"id":76,"date":"2015-06-28T02:47:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-28T02:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.travispaigephotography.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/28\/the-little-creatures-at-knights-hill-nature-park\/"},"modified":"2015-06-28T02:47:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-28T02:47:00","slug":"the-little-creatures-at-knights-hill-nature-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.travispaigephotography.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/28\/the-little-creatures-at-knights-hill-nature-park\/","title":{"rendered":"The Little Creatures at Knights Hill Nature Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The kids and I were at the Strawberry Festival in downtown New London and I had to show them this beautiful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoutingclub.net\/#!knights-hill-park\/c1ca5\">spot<\/a>. Being a sunny day I decided to focus on the insect world. Most shots were taken with my 40MM Macro lens except for the damsel and dragonflies where I used a 200 or 300MM zoom lens. The bird at the end was not at the park, but in my front yard after we got home. Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.travispaigephotography.com\/Landscapes\/Knights-Hill-Nature-Park\/i-TNkkWKK\/A\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.travispaigephotography.com\/Landscapes\/Knights-Hill-Nature-Park\/i-TNkkWKK\/0\/M\/_DSC2153-M.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.travispaigephotography.com\/Landscapes\/Knights-Hill-Nature-Park\/i-TNkkWKK\/0\/M\/_DSC2153-M.jpg\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.travispaigephotography.com\/Landscapes\/Knights-Hill-Nature-Park\/i-Sm7PK7r\/A\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.travispaigephotography.com\/Landscapes\/Knights-Hill-Nature-Park\/i-Sm7PK7r\/0\/M\/_DSC2161-M.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" 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data-src=\"http:\/\/www.travispaigephotography.com\/Landscapes\/Knights-Hill-Nature-Park\/i-dLJdBZV\/0\/M\/_DSC2197-M.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.travispaigephotography.com\/Landscapes\/Knights-Hill-Nature-Park\/i-dLJdBZV\/0\/M\/_DSC2197-M.jpg\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.travispaigephotography.com\/Landscapes\/Knights-Hill-Nature-Park\/i-Dx8T75p\/A\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.travispaigephotography.com\/Landscapes\/Knights-Hill-Nature-Park\/i-Dx8T75p\/0\/M\/_DSC2211-M.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.travispaigephotography.com\/Landscapes\/Knights-Hill-Nature-Park\/i-Dx8T75p\/0\/M\/_DSC2211-M.jpg\" 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data-src=\"http:\/\/www.travispaigephotography.com\/Landscapes\/Knights-Hill-Nature-Park\/i-HprrVS5\/0\/M\/_DSC2374-M.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.travispaigephotography.com\/Landscapes\/Knights-Hill-Nature-Park\/i-HprrVS5\/0\/M\/_DSC2374-M.jpg\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The kids and I were at the Strawberry Festival in downtown New London and I had to show them this beautiful spot. Being a sunny day I decided to focus on the insect world. Most shots were taken with my 40MM Macro lens except for the damsel and dragonflies where I used a 200 or 300MM zoom lens. The bird at the end was not at the park, but in my front yard after we got home. Enjoy. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,38,56,62,11,33,20,8],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-black-and-white","category-insects","category-knights-hill-nature-park","category-landscapes","category-macro","category-photography","category-travis-paige"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.travispaigephotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.travispaigephotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.travispaigephotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.travispaigephotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.travispaigephotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.travispaigephotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.travispaigephotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.travispaigephotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.travispaigephotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.travispaigephotography.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}