{"id":18326,"date":"2015-12-31T00:00:49","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T05:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=18326"},"modified":"2015-12-30T23:50:59","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T04:50:59","slug":"decembers-abstract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2015\/12\/decembers-abstract\/","title":{"rendered":"December&#8217;s abstract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/HydrophobicFeather.jpg\" alt=\"raindrops on floating down feather\" width=\"730\" height=\"424\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18327\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>I got this one during the same outing as the previous post, but I needed to close the year with another abstract, so here it is. It&#8217;s a tight crop from the original, a down feather floating on the pond and sporting some raindrops, taken while perched precariously on the shore. I suspect it did much better with the near-overcast light than it would&#8217;ve with bright sunlight, and you have to admit that the lensing effect of the drops worked well.<\/p>\n<p>Now, just for perspective, I want you to picture this. The feather was all of 3 cm in length, floating on the water just a little offshore, held in place by reeds. The water drops thereon could only have been seen with a close inspection. Finding something interesting to photograph sometimes takes a bit of patience and a keen eye for detail. And, in this case, being blas\u00e9 about sitting on the damp ground at the edge of the pond &#8211; I think the wet ass was worth it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got this one during the same outing as the previous post, but I needed to close the year with another abstract, so here it is. It&#8217;s a tight crop from the original, a down feather floating on the pond and sporting some raindrops, taken while perched precariously on the shore. I suspect it did [&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":[1529,3319,2564],"class_list":["post-18326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-abstract","tag-feather","tag-raindrops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18326","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=18326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}