{"id":18873,"date":"2016-05-30T20:42:41","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T00:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=18873"},"modified":"2016-05-30T20:42:41","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T00:42:41","slug":"month-end-and-monday-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2016\/05\/month-end-and-monday-color\/","title":{"rendered":"Month end and Monday color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ButterflyBackground.jpg\" alt=\"Fritillary, perhaps Speyeria hydaspe, against streaky green background\" width=\"400\" height=\"630\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18874\" \/>Anyone is free to pick on me regarding my definition of &#8216;abstract&#8217; for this one, and I won&#8217;t argue &#8211; it doesn&#8217;t really fit with my own definition. But it&#8217;s what I have from a month that included few choices for a month-end abstract. This fritillary butterfly, which <em>might<\/em> be a <em>Speyeria hydaspe<\/em>, went well against the streaked background, which is actually a stand of pitcher plants in the botanical garden, same location and day as my copperhead encounter from the previous post. I spotted this butterfly from the other side, and it was patient enough (or whatever quality you&#8217;d like to assign) to wait while I switched sides for a better view. You get to see the results when this works out<strong>;<\/strong> many times it doesn&#8217;t, and my subject vanishes before I can compose the image to my liking. So it goes &#8211; there will be other subjects and other opportunities. But I do have to say that I&#8217;ve gotten a lot better at stalking, having a decent grasp of what will spook off a living subject and what won&#8217;t &#8211; it&#8217;s not perfect, but it <em>has<\/em> increased my capture rate. Patience and moving slowly are extremely important, and just have to be a constant habit of any nature photographer.<\/p>\n<p>And since it&#8217;s Monday, I will include another image from the same outing, an American five-lined skink that was arrogant enough (hey, might as well assign some fun anthropomorphisms if we&#8217;re going to do it) to remain in place where the sunlight would have the best effect on its skin hues. This one is likely a young adult male, since the blue tail is common in the juveniles of both sexes but the red head is a sign of adult males, so &#8216;arrogant&#8217; might be pretty appropriate. The color range is great though, especially when considered from a temperature standpoint &#8211; you can just hear the locals commenting about this being one hot-headed, cold-assed skink. Or at least <em>I<\/em> can&#8230;<br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/FullTemperatureRange.jpg\" alt=\"American five-lined skink PLestiodon fasciatus basking in sunlight\" width=\"730\" height=\"226\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18876\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>There will probably be a few more images from the same session coming along shortly, but first, we must take a break to feature more supremely creepy content, because I cannot capture images of that nature without generously sharing them with as many people as I can. Grotesquely magnanimous, that&#8217;s me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone is free to pick on me regarding my definition of &#8216;abstract&#8217; for this one, and I won&#8217;t argue &#8211; it doesn&#8217;t really fit with my own definition. But it&#8217;s what I have from a month that included few choices for a month-end abstract. This fritillary butterfly, which might be a Speyeria hydaspe, went well [&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":[1176,3440,3438,1178,3439],"class_list":["post-18873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-because","category-nature","category-photo","tag-american-five-lined-skink","tag-among-other-things","tag-fritillary","tag-plestiodon-fasciatus","tag-speyeria-hydaspe-maybe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18873","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=18873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}