{"id":18423,"date":"2016-01-31T15:51:11","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T20:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=18423"},"modified":"2016-01-31T15:51:11","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T20:51:11","slug":"januarys-abstract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2016\/01\/januarys-abstract\/","title":{"rendered":"January’s abstract"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you’re seeing this, it means I’ve failed.<\/p>\n

I am committed to continuing the month-end abstract images that I kinda sorta started doing last year, but I really haven’t shot much this month. I did not neglect the winter storm that hit the east coast of the US, but also didn’t shoot a lot of it either, and while I am scheduled to go out on a session with a student today – obviously I am writing this before it occurs – if you see these words it means I didn’t get any abstract images that I liked better than this one.<\/p>\n

At this latitude, the storm was in the form of sleet that later froze together into pack ice, but the nearby pond came close to freezing over – what you’re seeing here are the edge effects, waterlogged sleet at the top and spontaneous ice crystals making geometric patterns further down, with a hint of the pond bottom showing through to prevent the image from being monochromatic. You might think this is a tight closeup and those crystal patterns are small, but you’d be mistaken – this frame probably spans about a half-meter. It’s too bad I didn’t get it reflecting some cool sunrise colors…<\/p>\n

By the way, this also marks my 1,000th post since I started the blog – not a great accomplishment compared to some people<\/a>, but still worth noting. Right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’re seeing this, it means I’ve failed. I am committed to continuing the month-end abstract images that I kinda sorta started doing last year, but I really haven’t shot much this month. I did not neglect the winter storm that hit the east coast of the US, but also didn’t shoot a lot of […]<\/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":[3342,1529,3341,2112],"class_list":["post-18423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-because","category-nature","category-photo","tag-1000th-post","tag-abstract","tag-freezing-over","tag-ice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18423","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=18423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}