{"id":10064,"date":"2012-12-29T12:12:02","date_gmt":"2012-12-29T17:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=10064"},"modified":"2012-12-29T12:12:02","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T17:12:02","slug":"cut-out-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2012\/12\/cut-out-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Cut out for me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Wild of <em>Myrmecos<\/em> (sidebar,) and <em>Compound Eye<\/em> at <em>Scientific American<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/compound-eye\/2012\/12\/26\/show-us-your-best-sciencenature-images-of-2012\/\" target=\"_blank\">has announced that he will feature any &#8220;Best of 2012&#8221; sites<\/a> from science &#038; nature photographers in a post at <em>Compound Eye<\/em>. There&#8217;s already a nice collection of links, so check them out!<\/p>\n<p>While I usually skip the whole &#8220;best of the year&#8221; stuff and rarely get engaged in rating my images, I figured it was a good way to go back over what I&#8217;d done which, among other things, helps set goals for improvement and future captures. Not to mention I&#8217;m happy for the chance of greater exposure. I figure I&#8217;ll feature one photo from each of the broad categories into which I sort my images, and one runner-up. The runner-up post will come first, followed by the best post a day later, on the 31st.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll be interesting. Two categories, <em>Mountain<\/em> and <em>Beach<\/em>, have no entries for 2012 at all &#8211; I never got the chance to do any shooting at either. One category received its first contributions for the year just a couple days ago &#8211; that will be obvious ;-)<\/p>\n<p>And one category, <em>Insects<\/em> (which should technically be called <em>Arthropods<\/em>, but too bad) has 6,687 images from this year in it, and I&#8217;m not even sure I&#8217;m done. These, by the way, are the &#8216;keepers,&#8217; the ones I considered strong enough for my stock images, and far less than what I actually shot &#8211; many images get discarded from simply not making the standards I set. So yeah, going through that collection is going to take some time.<\/p>\n<p>Coming soon (as soon as I finish all of the illustrations necessary) will be another webpage in the <em>Tips &#038; Tricks<\/em> section of the main site, as well. So check back shortly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Wild of Myrmecos (sidebar,) and Compound Eye at Scientific American, has announced that he will feature any &#8220;Best of 2012&#8221; sites from science &#038; nature photographers in a post at Compound Eye. There&#8217;s already a nice collection of links, so check them out! While I usually skip the whole &#8220;best of the year&#8221; stuff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4,3],"tags":[1577],"class_list":["post-10064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-continued","category-nature","category-photo","tag-i-didnt-say-good"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}