{"id":25243,"date":"2020-01-08T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T11:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=25243"},"modified":"2020-01-07T00:57:27","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T05:57:27","slug":"on-this-date-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2020\/01\/on-this-date-2\/","title":{"rendered":"On this date 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/hyperspace-large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/hyperspace.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"hyperspace\" width=\"730\" height=\"548\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3066\" \/><\/a><br clear=\"all\"\/><br clear=\"all\"\/>This one has actually appeared before, <a href=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2011\/01\/just-because-part-four\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a long time ago<\/a>, but not as long ago as it was <em>taken<\/em>, which was in 2007. It was a momentary experiment, and it came out a bit cooler than I expected or dreamed, not exactly justifying the risk I took, but close. If you like drama or want to guess on your own, go to that link, because in the next paragraph I&#8217;m going to skip all that and simply explain what it is.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, spoilers ahead.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, fine. During a heavy downpour, I took out the Canon Pro 90 IS, charged the on-camera flash, and simply stuck it out from under the roof overhang directly into the rain and fired off a frame straight up into the air, counting on the flash to do&#8230; <em>something<\/em>. I then immediately drew it back in, having been in the rain for not two seconds, and dried it off thoroughly, but still, it wouldn&#8217;t have taken much for some water to have seeped into a seam or crack somewhere and shorted some electronics, so not the smartest or most cautious of moves on my part. Nowadays I have a rain guard which would work peachy in such conditions, so maybe I&#8217;ll have to revisit this. It was the flash duration that provided the effect, especially the streaking, and I would be curious to see how a much-more-powerful flash like the Metz 40 MZ-3i changed this. Meanwhile, if you want to see a larger version, just click on the pic.<\/p>\n<p>Also on this date but only three years ago in 2017, I took most of the photos for <a href=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2017\/01\/look-i-took-pictures\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">this post<\/a> &#8211; all but the fog shots, which were taken the same day as the post itself. Clearly, a bit of difference in conditions between the two, and indeed today as well &#8211; or so I&#8217;m told. I&#8217;m writing this a day in advance, so I&#8217;m going off the forecast, which tells me it&#8217;s going to be clear and, eventually, fairly warm. Still winter, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one has actually appeared before, a long time ago, but not as long ago as it was taken, which was in 2007. It was a momentary experiment, and it came out a bit cooler than I expected or dreamed, not exactly justifying the risk I took, but close. If you like drama or want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[5347,438,2715],"class_list":["post-25243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-random","tag-dont-try-this-at-home-or-anywhere-else","tag-experimental-photography","tag-rain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25243","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=25243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}