{"id":27741,"date":"2020-11-30T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=27741"},"modified":"2020-11-29T13:32:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-29T18:32:29","slug":"just-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2020\/11\/just-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Just levels"},"content":{"rendered":"

November has been quite a frustrating month for me, so I’m more than happy to see the end of it – except, there’s absolutely no reason to believe a)<\/em> that such circumstances are influenced by, well, anything;<\/strong> b)<\/em> that the arbitrary demarcation of the ‘month end’ means anything more than a simplification of our mental categorizing;<\/strong> and c)<\/em> that even if either of these weren’t true, that the last day of the month could influence those things that I find frustrating. Which means all of these are decidedly abstract impressions, whereupon we segue into our routine month-end post. You didn’t believe we could go this deep, didya?<\/p>\n

Anyway, we have two today, shot nearby during two of the very-brief attempts at photographing anything in the past few weeks – aside from the late fall dearth of subject matter, we also have the other pursuits that I’ve been engaged with that sapped (uh, are sapping<\/em>,) too much of my time, thus the dearth of posts as well. So it goes;<\/strong> I’m still riding the wave from October ;-)<\/p>\n

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It’s not exactly hard to determine what this is, but the water was nice and smooth and I wanted that subtle little spider in there – please don’t tell me you missed it. Actually, it’s only the reflection<\/em> of the spider, though the spider itself is actually visible, it’s against the complicated background of the stump (actually I think it’s an old fencepost, which makes this a fencepostpost,) and very hard to make out at this resolution, but if you want to try, go for it.<\/p>\n

Come to think of it, this is a fencepostpost squared, because that also serves as the setting for the next entry.<\/p>\n

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Whoops, no, I lie – this is a signpost instead. Well, it’s the weird fungus atop<\/em> a signpost, which itself is not visible, that I shot wide open in natural light with the Mamiya 80mm macro and extension tube, because I hadn’t bothered to grab the macro lighting rig. Which would have made it better, to be sure, because depth of field at f4 isn’t exactly overwhelming. I could also have boosted contrast, but that would have been cheating. I mean, even more than the specific cropping and resizing that I did for this post. Listen, don’t ask me to explain my ethics, and you won’t get so confused.<\/p>\n

I have a coupla fartsy shots from the same outings (or at least one of them) that will be along when I finally get a smidgen more free time that is not spent on other projects. Continue monitoring this particular radio frequency, as they say, which makes no sense at all but I<\/em> didn’t make it up…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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