{"id":19246,"date":"2016-08-31T02:00:38","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T06:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=19246"},"modified":"2016-08-30T23:03:11","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T03:03:11","slug":"an-abstract-for-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2016\/08\/an-abstract-for-august\/","title":{"rendered":"An abstract for August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/AugustAbstract.jpg\" alt=\"hermit crab trails on Driftwood Beach Jekyll Island Georgia\" width=\"730\" height=\"587\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19247\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>Okay, this one is quite a bit more abstract than some of the previous, so I feel better now. In fact, it is only that small leaf at lower left that provides some scale to begin to give a little context &#8211; I wish I&#8217;d shot a few frames without it, but I wasn&#8217;t thinking about it at the time. So go ahead, using that clue that I wantonly handed you, figure out what it is you&#8217;re looking at.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, your experience with drainage and crustaceans instantly announced that this is an image of hermit crab trails across a tidal flat &#8211; Driftwood Beach on the northern tip of Jekyll Island, to be exact (and chances are, thinstripe hermit crabs, <em>Clibanarius vittatus<\/em>, judging from the others that I found.) Less than an hour after sunrise, the low light angle gave a lot of definition to the minor variations in the sand, and the breeze hadn&#8217;t yet dried it out and started erasing it, so this was probably the best time to photograph such things. In fact, &#8220;When is the best time to photograph hermit crab trails across a tidal flat?&#8221; is probably the most frequent question asked within the comments (as you can see,) so I&#8217;m happy to provide this little illustration. Always there for my readers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, this one is quite a bit more abstract than some of the previous, so I feel better now. In fact, it is only that small leaf at lower left that provides some scale to begin to give a little context &#8211; I wish I&#8217;d shot a few frames without it, but I wasn&#8217;t thinking [&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":[696,694,3528],"class_list":["post-19246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-because","category-nature","category-photo","tag-driftwood-beach","tag-jekyll-island","tag-why-are-you-still-posting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19246","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=19246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}