{"id":16334,"date":"2015-03-23T03:53:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T07:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=16334"},"modified":"2015-03-23T03:53:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T07:53:31","slug":"hey-vernal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2015\/03\/hey-vernal\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, Vernal!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Vernal-pool.jpg\" alt=\"small frame of pond with tadpoles and minnows\" width=\"730\" height=\"487\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Vernal-pool.jpg 730w, https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Vernal-pool-1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>If I&#8217;d been more on top of things, I could have posted this the day I took it, which was Saturday, and thus only been a day later than the equinox and slightly more, I dunno, appropriate? Timely? Whatever, this is a nice illustration of spring, better than I originally believed, even. I think it&#8217;s fairly obvious how narrow a field of view this is, capturing a tiny section of a shallow pond, and I was focusing on the minnows over the leaf. However, I count eleven separate critters or portions thereof present in the frame. If you get <em>more<\/em> than that, let me know, and I&#8217;ll give you a prize of some kind once our independent judges have confirmed the count.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/dragonlady.jpg\" alt=\"pond slider in near-silhouette\" width=\"400\" height=\"572\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/dragonlady.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/dragonlady-1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>Aw, what the hell, here&#8217;s another, a pond slider showing off those <em>fab<\/em>ulous nails. I did a tweak in the curves function in Photoshop to bring out the stripes on the head and hind a little better, rendering it slightly less of a silhouette. This is a tighter crop than the original, and it&#8217;s interesting the difference it can make &#8211; there were no more reeds visible in the wider version, but additional open water in the lower corners, so this crop makes it seem more as if I was spotting the turtle through a gap in a thicket of weeds than the original does. I think our minds, knowing how plants grow, automatically fill in the lower sections outside of the frame with the reeds that <em>must<\/em> be there. And until I saw the effect for myself, I never would have imagined it working that way, so playing around with exactly how and where you crop an image might bring out a different perspective and impression. Experiment freely.<br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I&#8217;d been more on top of things, I could have posted this the day I took it, which was Saturday, and thus only been a day later than the equinox and slightly more, I dunno, appropriate? Timely? Whatever, this is a nice illustration of spring, better than I originally believed, even. I think it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[597,2836,596,2835],"class_list":["post-16334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-minnows","tag-pond-slider","tag-tadpoles","tag-this-one-goes-to-eleven"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16334","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=16334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}