{"id":24066,"date":"2019-07-02T12:12:21","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T16:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=24066"},"modified":"2019-07-02T12:12:21","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T16:12:21","slug":"because-im-petty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2019\/07\/because-im-petty\/","title":{"rendered":"Because I&#8217;m petty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/SneakingUpOnDew.jpg\" alt=\"damselfly, probably American rubyspot Hetaerina americana, on reed with dew\" width=\"750\" height=\"513\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24067\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>I&#8217;m doing this because <a href=\"http:\/\/albuggphotos.blogspot.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Mr Bugg<\/a> was crowing that he&#8217;d be having fun while I have to go into work this afternoon, and I pointed out how far behind he was with his posting. Naturally, I have to put these up from this morning&#8217;s session before he gets to it.<\/p>\n<p>The location is the head of the Neuse River, an old haunt that I still get back to infrequently. It was a little slow today, but we managed to find a handful of things to photograph, like a horde of damselflies all over the place, which I <em>believe<\/em> are American rubyspots (<em>Hetaerina americana<\/em>.) The above photo is cropped a little from full frame, which took away some detail, so I&#8217;m adding the one below &#8211; it&#8217;s the same shot, just a little below full resolution. I had to show off.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/SneakingUpInset.jpg\" alt=\"damselfly probably American rubyspot Hetaerina americana, inset\" width=\"750\" height=\"595\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24068\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>I can certainly live with those results, shot freehand in ambient early morning light. <\/p>\n<p>But one more, just for giggles.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/LossaDamsels.jpg\" alt=\"a lot of damselflies, probably American rubyspots Hetaerina americana, on reeds\" width=\"750\" height=\"435\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24069\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>Nope, not &#8216;shopped, just happened to catch a bunch together &#8211; when they&#8217;re begging for attention like this, well, you do what you have to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m doing this because Mr Bugg was crowing that he&#8217;d be having fun while I have to go into work this afternoon, and I pointed out how far behind he was with his posting. Naturally, I have to put these up from this morning&#8217;s session before he gets to it. The location is the head [&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":[4982,4985,4983,1331,4984],"class_list":["post-24066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-american-rubyspot","tag-damselflies","tag-hetaerina-americana","tag-neuse-river","tag-ya-gotta-stop-being-obnoxious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24066","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=24066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}