{"id":31512,"date":"2022-03-31T00:55:11","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T04:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=31512"},"modified":"2022-03-30T19:55:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T23:55:28","slug":"be-sure-and-tell-em-large-march-sent-ya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2022\/03\/be-sure-and-tell-em-large-march-sent-ya\/","title":{"rendered":"Be sure and tell &#8217;em Large March sent ya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was on this very day, seven years ago, in a deep fog just like this, that we had the first abstract we ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>Well, okay, it was the first of the month-end abstracts, even though I didn&#8217;t know it at the time, and quite frankly, it puts a lot of those following to shame, and today will be no exception. So what do we have as March&#8217;s golden parachute?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DownstreamBoston.jpg\" alt=\"long exposure of river oversaturated\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31513\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>Ehhhhh, it&#8217;s&#8230; showing the effort, anyway. Actually it&#8217;s a grab shot during the Eno River outing, slowing the shutter speed down to soften the water, but I was working without a tripod, allowing the image stabilization to keep it sharp, which was definitely pushing the function a little too far. And then of course I boosted the saturation just for drama. Plus I could do without that little branch on the right, which I missed at the time &#8211; cropping it out would take away the frame&#8217;s balance, though why (if I was already shamelessly GIMPing it all up) I didn&#8217;t just remove it in post, we&#8217;ll never comprehend.<\/p>\n<p>How about another attempt? [Your avowals that this is totally unnecessary fall on deaf ears.]<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/MoreAbstractWood.jpg\" alt=\"twisty misshapen roots looking creepy\" width=\"750\" height=\"1157\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31514\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>One of these days, I&#8217;ll determine what kind of tree this is, because I&#8217;ve seen it many times before, always on the banks of a river or stream. The roots are often exposed, though this may occur from erosion long after the tree is established, and always quite Cthulhu. I can&#8217;t believe that spellcheck actually <em>has<\/em> that in there&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I knew this one was in the running for the month end, because of course it was &#8211; there are multiple faces you can wring out of it if you try, and probably even more if you&#8217;re partaking of various recreational pharmaceuticals. If you are, I&#8217;d suggest <a href=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2014\/08\/its-all-good-for-something\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">playing the sound file here<\/a> while you&#8217;re at it. And upload the reaction video.<\/p>\n<p>Aw, what the hell &#8211; we&#8217;ll revisit the first in only the Blue channel.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DownstreamBoston-Blue.jpg\" alt=\"same river ripples in only Blue channel\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31517\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>That&#8217;s a bit more abstract, isn&#8217;t it? Or am I reaching?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was on this very day, seven years ago, in a deep fog just like this, that we had the first abstract we ever seen. Well, okay, it was the first of the month-end abstracts, even though I didn&#8217;t know it at the time, and quite frankly, it puts a lot of those following to [&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":[6690,2421,2007,4464,6597],"class_list":["post-31512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-definitely-reaching","tag-eno-river","tag-ripples","tag-roots","tag-time-exposure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31512","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=31512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}