{"id":29916,"date":"2021-08-31T01:00:57","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T05:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=29916"},"modified":"2021-08-30T20:17:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T00:17:18","slug":"nakhvamdis-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2021\/08\/nakhvamdis-august\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Nakhvamdis<\/em>, August!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For reasons yet to be determined, there are no more numbers on my wall calendar past today, starting over at 1, so this has to mean it&#8217;s time for the end of the month abstract. Only thing is, I didn&#8217;t really take any abstract images this month, or at least if I did, I already posted them, so what we have here is kind of a cheat, but I figure if I&#8217;m gonna fudge it, I&#8217;ll do it twice.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/SwallowtailDetail2.jpg\" alt=\"closeup detail of eastern tiger swallowtail Papilio glaucus forewing\" width=\"750\" height=\"930\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29917\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>Is it obvious what this is? It is to <em>me<\/em>, but I took it and cropped it ridiculously tight to eliminate context, so I may be biased. How about another crop from the exact same frame?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/SwallowtailDetail.jpg\" alt=\"closeup detail of eastern tiger swallowtail Papilio glaucus hindwing\" width=\"750\" height=\"1109\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29918\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>Chances are, even if you didn&#8217;t tumble to the first, you know it by the second as a butterfly&#8217;s wing, specifically an eastern tiger swallowtail (<em>Papilio glaucus<\/em>) in yellow phase. Actually, the original frame was the entire butterfly (well, the dorsal view anyway, because they <em>still<\/em> haven&#8217;t created cubist digital cameras,) shot freehand in the botanical garden, and I just cropped in for the detail in the wings &#8211; forewing at top, hindwing following (and why isn&#8217;t it simply called the followwing?) A wild specimen that wasn&#8217;t restrained in any way except by its love of nectar, so revel in the remarkable sharpness and clarity from a true professional photographer.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, what the hell &#8211; one more.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/KeepCheating.jpg\" alt=\"blurred carpenter bee leaving hosta flower\" width=\"750\" height=\"1007\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29919\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>I have to include this one lest my ego get too unwieldy, though admittedly it was shot in July. I was up on the deck landing at the top of the stairs trying for some deer photos (which reminds me that I have to dig those out,) and spotted a bumblebee on the hosta flowers below, so I fired off a couple of frames with the 150-600mm lens, again handheld &#8211; obviously they did not come out ideal, but I kinda liked this one because of the faintly impressionist quality, and I boosted the saturation a little, because cheating is addictive I suppose. Plus it boosts the uploaded image count for the month. Whatever &#8211; say goodbye to August, and we&#8217;ll see what September brings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For reasons yet to be determined, there are no more numbers on my wall calendar past today, starting over at 1, so this has to mean it&#8217;s time for the end of the month abstract. Only thing is, I didn&#8217;t really take any abstract images this month, or at least if I did, I already [&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":[5018,594,5481,6370,6371,595],"class_list":["post-29916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-carpenter-bee","tag-eastern-tiger-swallowtail","tag-hosta","tag-its-georgian","tag-or-close-to-it","tag-papilio-glaucus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29916","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=29916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}