{"id":32977,"date":"2022-10-20T11:51:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T15:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=32977"},"modified":"2022-10-20T11:51:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T15:51:47","slug":"not-this-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2022\/10\/not-this-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Not this time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[As a pointless side note, I checked my original title of, &#8220;Not yet,&#8221; to see if I&#8217;d used it before, and I had, so then I had to check this one and it was safe. In the process, I&#8217;d found that I had <em>46<\/em> post titles starting with, &#8220;Not,&#8221; which strikes me as notably negative but then again typical. Still, that&#8217;s not (<em>heh!<\/em>) even 2%, so not a problem. Yet.]<\/p>\n<p>A quick one here, still busy. On this last beach trip, I made another attempt to emulate an image that I&#8217;d gotten years ago in the hopes of improving it, but the conditions weren&#8217;t right this day. It works, but not as intended.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/UntilItMoves.jpg\" alt=\"small Atlantic ghost crab Ocypode quadrata camouflaging against sand\" width=\"750\" height=\"1198\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32979\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>This is most likely an Atlantic ghost crab (<em>Ocypode quadrata<\/em>,) and quite small &#8211; not 15mm across the width of the carapace. If you can see these before they move, you have much sharper eyes than I do. This is kind of the image that I was after, showing how well they blend in so it&#8217;s more like the viewer <em>finds<\/em> the crab in the shot, though this was late afternoon and I wanted sunrise light<strong>;<\/strong> it would have helped if I&#8217;d gotten up for sunrise and not several hours later, but it had been a late night. No, I was not hungover &#8211; fuck off. Knowing that the light wasn&#8217;t ideal, I still went for the vertical, short DOF approach, and the lower contrast from high, soft shadows helps with the camouflage aspect. I&#8217;ll keep it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[As a pointless side note, I checked my original title of, &#8220;Not yet,&#8221; to see if I&#8217;d used it before, and I had, so then I had to check this one and it was safe. In the process, I&#8217;d found that I had 46 post titles starting with, &#8220;Not,&#8221; which strikes me as notably negative [&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":[3515,3516,3484],"class_list":["post-32977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-atlantic-ghost-crab","tag-ocypode-quadrata","tag-outer-banks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32977","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=32977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}