{"id":293477,"date":"2010-11-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/top-bird-photographer-has-secret-spot-in-la-jolla-2\/"},"modified":"2010-11-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T08:00:00","slug":"top-bird-photographer-has-secret-spot-in-la-jolla-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/top-bird-photographer-has-secret-spot-in-la-jolla-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Top bird photographer has \u2018secret spot\u2019 in La Jolla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LA JOLLA \u2014 Something you can never miss descending down Coast Boulevard from the village area into La Jolla Cove is the vast colony of California brown pelicans perched upon the weathered rocks that jet out into the ocean. These craggy cliffs are not only a hub for this unique bird, which was listed as endangered for almost four decades, but they are a nature photographer\u2019s dream \u2014 The ocean backdrop is the perfect distance away from these long-billed subjects to yield stunning shots. Or so says nature photographer Arthur &#8220;Artie&#8221; Morris, who is widely recognized as one of the world\u2019s premier bird photographers and a top nature photography educator of his time. He has dedicated much of his life to sitting near those cliffs and observing the brown-bodied birds, and his shots have been featured in hundreds of books and calendars, as well as a variety of magazines and galleries. &#8220;There are lots of places to photograph California brown pelicans,&#8221; said Morris. &#8220;But none that I know of where you can photograph them that beautifully. People come from all over the world to La Jolla to photograph this bird.&#8221; He declines to give away his &#8220;secret spot,&#8221; as he doesn\u2019t want it to become congested with photographers trying to capture images as remarkable as his own, but with a little exploration of the La Jolla cliffs, it wouldn\u2019t be hard to find a secret spot of one\u2019s own. Morris will be in San Diego to give seminars Nov. 13 and 14 for Photo Expo West, taking place at the Del Mar Fairgrounds\u2019 Bing Crosby Hall. <iframe data-src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/likebox.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F%23%21%2Fpages%2FLa-Jolla-Village-News%2F105218392876426&amp;width=500&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;connections=10&amp;stream=true&amp;header=true&amp;height=587\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:500px; height:587px;\" allowtransparency=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LA JOLLA \u2014 Something you can never miss descending down Coast Boulevard from the village area into La Jolla Cove is the vast colony of California brown pelicans perched upon the weathered rocks that jet out into the ocean. These craggy cliffs are not only a hub for this unique bird, which was listed as [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":293478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"Top bird photographer has \u2018secret spot\u2019 in La Jolla","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sdnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}