{"id":32329,"date":"2022-07-20T23:20:41","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T03:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=32329"},"modified":"2022-07-20T23:20:41","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T03:20:41","slug":"while-its-still-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2022\/07\/while-its-still-today\/","title":{"rendered":"While it’s still today"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just a couple-three images from today, before it’s not anymore. I could<\/em> be doing video editing, but the posts have been thin, so…<\/p>\n

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Going out to do some work on the car this morning, I espied this little guy and had to go back in to get my camera. By now you know this is a Carolina anole (Anolis carolinensis<\/em>,) but to be honest, I’m not sure if this is the same guy that I photographed on the neighboring pelican statue<\/a> (this is a rabbit, in case it’s unclear,) or the second anole bebby that I spotted some days back<\/a>, or even a third one – it seems even smaller than I recall, especially when I expect to see them getting a little bigger each time I spot them, but who can tell? Makes no difference anyway – they’re quite welcome no matter how many, even when they seem to think that they’re not somehow. This one was already turning away to plot its escape route.<\/p>\n

Then this evening, I was working on the computer when the lightning alert came through, and I looked at the activity band and the weather radar, suspecting there might be a show down at Jordan Lake, so I collected the Illustrious Mr Bugg and we went down there to see what was happening.<\/p>\n

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The activity was clear as we were driving down there (it takes about fifteen minutes,) but it was tapering off by the time we could set up. Still, a few good flashes were able to be captured, and this one is my favorite, even getting a little cloud definition in there from the light of the bolts.<\/p>\n

Curiously, there was no evidence of ground strikes the entire time, nor even any recorded on the lightning trackers, but if we get nice cloud-to-cloud stuff like this, I’m good with it. The wind coming off the lake was fierce, stronger than most ocean winds that I’ve experienced, though not at all uncomfortable – the temperature dropped a couple of degrees at most while we were out there. But it had an unintended effect that I would rather not have had.<\/p>\n

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None of the discharges were long or flickering, as lightning will sometimes display – they were all singular flashes. So seeing this multiple image (this is almost full-resolution to illustrate it clearly) was very curious, especially since I have it in more than one frame. It’s simply evidence of the strong wind vibrating the tripod, even in the brief duration of the lightning burst, which is impressive. One<\/em> frame, I might have credited to bumping the tripod, but I’m pretty careful about that and was using the remote release. The wind was so fierce, however, that conversation was challenging, so I can understand this, but I still would rather not have had it. Ah well.<\/p>\n

Okay, back to editing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just a couple-three images from today, before it’s not anymore. I could be doing video editing, but the posts have been thin, so… Going out to do some work on the car this morning, I espied this little guy and had to go back in to get my camera. By now you know this is […]<\/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":[531,4081,3798,179,2094,676],"class_list":["post-32329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-anolis-carolinensis","tag-carolina-anole","tag-jordan-lake","tag-lightning-photography","tag-night-exposures","tag-time-exposures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32329","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=32329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}