{"id":29934,"date":"2021-08-31T20:53:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T00:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=29934"},"modified":"2021-08-31T20:53:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T00:53:00","slug":"already-on-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2021\/08\/already-on-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Already on it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/TowardsTheGlitter.jpg\" alt=\"killdeer Charadrius vociferus skimming across water at sunrise\" width=\"750\" height=\"506\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29935\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>Someone &#8211; I can&#8217;t remember who &#8211; suggested this morning that I should work on my art. They don&#8217;t know me very well, of course, because I don&#8217;t do &#8216;art.&#8217; However, I will get <em>fartsy<\/em> from time to time, and they were far too late to tell me about <em>that<\/em>, because I already had a selection of frames collected this morning. Above, a killdeer (<em>Charadrius vociferus<\/em>) skims the water&#8217;s surface at sunrise, catching a little light through the primary wing feathers.<\/p>\n<p>While below, stationing myself at a preferred location as the sun was about to rise allowed me to play around with specific positioning as it appeared.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/SunriseStack.jpg\" alt=\"sunrise over Jordan Lake against stone stack and sapling\" width=\"750\" height=\"1374\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29936\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>The stone stack was not mine &#8211; I just shamelessly used it. I <em>will<\/em> take credit for staying the hell out of the water so the surface remained smooth for the shot, though.<\/p>\n<p>This, by the way, puts me one over for the &#8216;post for every day&#8217; personal challenge for August, so it&#8217;s a bonus, really, and the images kinda abstracty to boot. These make it 102 pics uploaded for the month &#8211; not a record, but well above average, which is not bad for how uninviting the conditions were. I&#8217;m cool with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone &#8211; I can&#8217;t remember who &#8211; suggested this morning that I should work on my art. They don&#8217;t know me very well, of course, because I don&#8217;t do &#8216;art.&#8217; However, I will get fartsy from time to time, and they were far too late to tell me about that, because I already had a [&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":[6378,3798,6377,349],"class_list":["post-29934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-charadrius-vociferus","tag-jordan-lake","tag-killdeer","tag-sunrise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29934","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=29934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}