{"id":18161,"date":"2015-12-01T01:25:16","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T06:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=18161"},"modified":"2015-12-01T01:25:16","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T06:25:16","slug":"novembers-abstract-a-day-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2015\/12\/novembers-abstract-a-day-late\/","title":{"rendered":"November&#8217;s abstract (a day late)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dammit, I meant to post this yesterday, and forgot all about it. I&#8217;m disappointing my legions of readers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/LeafaraceL.jpg\" alt=\"submerged autumn leaf with glitter trail sparkles\" width=\"730\" height=\"1031\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18162\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>While I&#8217;ve had it in the back of my mind to maintain this new &#8216;tradition&#8217; of posting an abstract at month&#8217;s end, it hasn&#8217;t worked out for every month. But I knew this one was in the running the moment I saw how it had turned out. With most subjects, I already know how the image is going to look because every aspect is predictable<strong>;<\/strong> I know how the depth-of-field is going to render, and what the contrast will become and all that. And with some, I never know until I see the final image, like in this case. The gently undulating water reflecting the sunlight would be frozen at the moment the shutter tripped, producing a specific set of sparkles, while the bright light coming in would cause an exposure entirely different from what I was seeing in the viewfinder. I shot several frames, and picked this one for the layout of the starbursts. Those starbursts, however, were largely known, or at least the <em>effect<\/em> was, since it&#8217;s produced by using a small aperture. Two of them falling onto the leaf as they did was serendipity.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/FrostVictims.jpg\" alt=\"cherry tomatoes felled by frost\" width=\"400\" height=\"569\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-18163\" \/>Meanwhile, a follow-up to <a href=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2015\/11\/monday-color-42\/\" target=\"_blank\">last week&#8217;s Monday color<\/a>, because. An overnight frost finally convinced the cherry tomato plant to give it up and discard its fruit onto the porch below.<br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dammit, I meant to post this yesterday, and forgot all about it. I&#8217;m disappointing my legions of readers&#8230; While I&#8217;ve had it in the back of my mind to maintain this new &#8216;tradition&#8217; of posting an abstract at month&#8217;s end, it hasn&#8217;t worked out for every month. But I knew this one was in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1903,4,3],"tags":[1529,3278,3255,3279,2288,3277],"class_list":["post-18161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-because","category-nature","category-photo","tag-abstract","tag-autumn-leaf","tag-cherry-tomatoes","tag-frost-victims","tag-glitter-trail","tag-starbursts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18161","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=18161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}