{"id":26682,"date":"2020-07-31T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T05:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=26682"},"modified":"2020-07-30T09:36:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T13:36:34","slug":"now-july-me-down-to-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2020\/07\/now-july-me-down-to-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Now July me down to sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow, even I<\/em> don’t like that one!<\/p>\n

But you’re not here for the wordplay, you’re here for the month-end abstract. So let’s see, what do we have for the contestants?<\/p>\n

\"Coopers
While chasing the brood of Cooper’s hawks<\/a> (Accipiter cooperii<\/em>) that occupied Walkabout Estates, I snagged this motion-blurred example – image stabilizing lenses only work for the camera’s<\/em> motion, not the subject’s. Had it not been for that head, it would have been a lot more difficult to determine what this even was.<\/p>\n

I must note, by the way, that after making that post, I heard the young calling in the distance for a day or two, then nothing at all;<\/strong> they’ve left the area now, off on their own, so I’m glad I got what I did. This is contrasted against the red-shouldered hawks<\/a> a few years back, who left the nest<\/a> and vanished entirely – different species, different fledging habits.<\/p>\n

And another, more abstracty.<\/p>\n

\"fine
This one does much better at higher resolution, and may become a large print that makes people go in close, because the web strands stay sharp – at least, within the focus range in the center. There are just enough details to make it work, for me anyway:<\/strong> the sparkle of the light off the strands, the parachute-like billow in the middle, the clarity of the web structure at lower left, and the curves of the highlights at lower center. It also helped that I was shooting with a wide open aperture, so the background got rendered in soft round blobs instead of aperture-shapes like pentagons or septagons. Little things, little things…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow, even I don’t like that one! But you’re not here for the wordplay, you’re here for the month-end abstract. So let’s see, what do we have for the contestants? While chasing the brood of Cooper’s hawks (Accipiter cooperii) that occupied Walkabout Estates, I snagged this motion-blurred example – image stabilizing lenses only work for […]<\/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":[1529,3360,3359,3445,2197],"class_list":["post-26682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-abstract","tag-accipiter-cooperii","tag-coopers-hawk","tag-motion-blur","tag-spiderweb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26682","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=26682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}