{"id":32391,"date":"2022-07-31T01:00:52","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T05:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=32391"},"modified":"2022-07-30T00:15:52","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T04:15:52","slug":"can-i-take-your-plate-or-are-you-still-working-on-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2022\/07\/can-i-take-your-plate-or-are-you-still-working-on-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I take your plate, or are you still working on July?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for the month-end abstract so, hurry up.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/WebIridescence.jpg\" alt=\"backlit spider web with iridescent diffraction\" width=\"750\" height=\"1207\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32392\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>This month we have a grab shot as I was wandering around the neighborhood pond waiting to see if the beavers were going to show. Looking towards the setting sun, this spider web was backlit brilliantly and I had the long lens affixed, so I fired off a couple of frames hoping to nail the focus tightly enough. This frame not only had the focus, it also captured the diffraction from the gossamer strands (which I admit I shamelessly boosted a little in saturation because so there.) And I probably shouldn&#8217;t tell you this, but I&#8217;ve already confessed to heinous crimes for which Mariska Hargitay will be hunting me down, so I&#8217;ll just pile on and say that the laser beam that the web is anchored to is instead a strand of fishing line, because too many fisherman cannot entertain the idea of not casting from underneath tree branches. You&#8217;d think this wouldn&#8217;t be that hard to grasp&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for the month-end abstract so, hurry up. This month we have a grab shot as I was wandering around the neighborhood pond waiting to see if the beavers were going to show. Looking towards the setting sun, this spider web was backlit brilliantly and I had the long lens affixed, so I fired [&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":[6837,2117,6838,6835,6836],"class_list":["post-32391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-backlighting","tag-diffraction","tag-i-could-take-ice-t-though","tag-iridescence","tag-spider-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32391","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=32391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}