{"id":22892,"date":"2018-10-31T07:29:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T11:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=22892"},"modified":"2018-10-31T07:29:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T11:29:02","slug":"perhaps-the-first-of-the-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2018\/10\/perhaps-the-first-of-the-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Perhaps the first of the last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ButTheyreTiny.jpg\" alt=\"tiny mushrooms erupting from trunk\" width=\"750\" height=\"527\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22893\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>Given that October 31st is now twice as long, I actually have more time to post the end-of-the-month abstract, and so I might be back later on today to feature something else. But this is what I&#8217;m offering right now.<\/p>\n<p>The image above came from my recent trip to Ohio, in a small park that constituted a brief indulgence of my propensities, which means I didn&#8217;t do much shooting while there, and even less of my normal subject matter &#8211; disturbingly, I shot more photos at a <em>halftime show<\/em> for some sport, it might have been chess, but those were of my hosts&#8217; sprog and anyway we left before the second half or third trimester or whatever the hell it&#8217;s called. I did indeed travel with one of my macro lenses, the Mamiya 80mm, but did not take along a flash unit (airlines, you know,) so I was shooting handheld in natural light, which was pretty crummy overall. And in my defense, I will say that these mushrooms were <em>tiny<\/em>, barely discernible as bright specks on the trunk at &#8216;normal&#8217; viewing distance, so they&#8217;re magnified quite a bit (more so because this image is cropped.) They really deserved to be tackled more seriously, but not with the rig that I had at the time.<\/p>\n<p>More photos from that trip will be along shortly, but for now (and because I&#8217;m feeling a little guilty about the shot above,) I&#8217;ll throw in another from earlier this month, from right after I had <a href=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2018\/10\/projects-projects\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">repaired the Canon 17-85 IS USM<\/a> and was out doing test frames. As tests go this isn&#8217;t really a good example, because I&#8217;d repaired the aperture so the goal would be to see if it worked at, like, f16 and not wide open as seen here (and it did,) but the shot looked a lot better wide open so I&#8217;m featuring that one. Don&#8217;t ask me what these are, they&#8217;re just orange berries along the nearby pond. I probably should work on my fartistic blather more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/TheyreOrange.jpg\" alt=\"unidentified little orange berries\" width=\"750\" height=\"1116\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22894\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given that October 31st is now twice as long, I actually have more time to post the end-of-the-month abstract, and so I might be back later on today to feature something else. But this is what I&#8217;m offering right now. The image above came from my recent trip to Ohio, in a small park that [&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":[1529,4257,363,4540],"class_list":["post-22892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-abstract","tag-berries","tag-feeble-excuses","tag-mushrooms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22892","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=22892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}