{"id":34372,"date":"2023-05-09T11:21:43","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T15:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=34372"},"modified":"2023-05-08T11:21:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T15:21:56","slug":"wasnt-all-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2023\/05\/wasnt-all-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Wasn&#8217;t all birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a trio of images from the same outing last week, when I <em>wasn&#8217;t<\/em> concentrating on birds. Grab shots, as it were.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/SunsetTree.jpg\" alt=\"unidentified tree in setting sunlight\" width=\"750\" height=\"1071\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34373\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>I don&#8217;t know what the tree is, but I liked the angle of the branches in the light of the setting sun. Would have liked a little more buffer space around it, but as they say, you take what you can get, and Photoshop the rest.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/SunsetKayakers.jpg\" alt=\"group of kayakers heading out for sunset tour\" width=\"750\" height=\"491\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34374\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>A large group of kayakers, much more than seen here, were heading out together for what I assume was a sunset tour. I tried cropping this shorter in height, more of a panoramic, but it looked a lot flatter, no pun intended<strong>;<\/strong> that bit of blue water at the bottom, as unsaturated as it is, helps balance out the image more than you might think.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/LongAwaitedMoon.jpg\" alt=\"super gold rising full moon with hint of clouds\" width=\"750\" height=\"638\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34375\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>And when the sunset didn&#8217;t pan out, we waited for the moonrise, which took a lot longer to rise above the trees than I calculated. This was without any color alteration, as gold as it appeared, and not too shabby for handheld at 600mm and manual focus &#8211; I chose a frame with a hint of clouds for a little more personality than a basic full moon. If it seems like it&#8217;s just a little fuzzy on top, it is<strong>:<\/strong> that&#8217;s the 0.2% of the side facing us that was in shadow, just a hair past &#8216;full.&#8217; It&#8217;s funny that I can see this but not spot a crescent that&#8217;s almost as small as that edge, though tiny crescents admittedly appear in twilight skies and thus have much lower contrast from the surrounding sky. One day, however, I&#8217;ll snag a less-than-1%-illuminated moon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a trio of images from the same outing last week, when I wasn&#8217;t concentrating on birds. Grab shots, as it were. I don&#8217;t know what the tree is, but I liked the angle of the branches in the light of the setting sun. Would have liked a little more buffer space around it, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4,3],"tags":[4846,5333,7241,7242,350],"class_list":["post-34372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-nature","category-photo","tag-full-moon","tag-its-a-tree","tag-kayakers","tag-not-quite","tag-sunset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34372","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=34372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}