{"id":32000,"date":"2022-06-04T23:58:53","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T03:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=32000"},"modified":"2022-06-04T23:58:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T03:58:53","slug":"boy-that-was-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2022\/06\/boy-that-was-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, that was fast!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That month just <em>flew<\/em> past, didn&#8217;t it? But here we are at the end-of-the-month abstract, so let&#8217;s see what&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Hold on, I&#8217;m being informed that we&#8217;re nowhere near the end of the month, so this image can <em>not<\/em> be the end-of-the-month abstract unless I wait quite a while longer, and I&#8217;m not going to do that, so this is the&#8230; fourth&#8230; day&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Whatever. It&#8217;s what I got today.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/TwinGhostHeron.jpg\" alt=\"green heron Butorides virescens captured at slow shutter speed\" width=\"750\" height=\"523\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32001\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/TwinGhostHeron.jpg 750w, https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/TwinGhostHeron-210x146.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>A pair of green herons (<em>Butorides virescens<\/em>) were performing frequent pond crossings while we circumnavigated the neighborhood pond this evening, and as the sun dropped well behind the trees, I tried tracking one across the water, already pretty sure the shutter speed wasn&#8217;t likely to allow for good results. As it was, between that and the image stabilizing motor in the lens, I got this effect, an overlaid ghost image with a notable amount of detail in the wings. <em>Of course<\/em> I knew it would turn out this way &#8211; everything that I do is meticulously planned, because I am a professional&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That month just flew past, didn&#8217;t it? But here we are at the end-of-the-month abstract, so let&#8217;s see what&#8212; Hold on, I&#8217;m being informed that we&#8217;re nowhere near the end of the month, so this image can not be the end-of-the-month abstract unless I wait quite a while longer, and I&#8217;m not going to do [&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":[1529,446,6778,445],"class_list":["post-32000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-abstract","tag-butorides-virescens","tag-exactly-as-planned","tag-green-heron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32000","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=32000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}