{"id":35006,"date":"2023-07-31T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T05:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=35006"},"modified":"2023-07-30T23:19:34","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T03:19:34","slug":"holy-mackerel-is-that-the-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2023\/07\/holy-mackerel-is-that-the-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy mackerel, is that the time?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shit, July’s gotta flee the ball, leaving behind one ratty water sandal that the prince isn’t even going to risk touching and instead simply put some ‘Biohazard’ tape around and go peruse Tinder instead. Yes indeedydo, it’s the end of the month, and what kind of abstract image did our evil stepphotographer prepare for us?<\/p>\n

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Why, it’s… that. You know what that is, of course – far be it from me to insult your intelligence by having to spell it out. But just to avoid embarrassment, you can whisper it in my ear and I’ll confirm if you’re right.<\/p>\n

Yet we have more than one for the month, kinda making up for a paucity of both photos and posts, though you know how fucking hot it’s been so I ain’t apologizing for nuthin’ – you<\/em> should apologize to me<\/em> for even expecting anything<\/em> during these conditions. No no no, I don’t want to hear any of this, “Yeah, but you could simply have stayed indoors and done some pseudo-philosophical or research or even your terrible ideas of what humor is posts,” because that’s just trying to avert the blame, and that’s not allowed here.<\/p>\n

[Can you tell that I wrote this back-to-back with the previous? Yeah, I actually do some<\/em> planning for the blogoblob, dog knows why…]<\/p>\n

Where were we? [Who said, “Lost at sea as usual”? Stand up you little coward.] Another abstract! That’s right. It looks kinda like this:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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… only not exactly, because it’s too easy to tell this is the hindwing pattern on an eastern tiger swallowtail (Papilio glaucus<\/em>) – which might help you with the previous image. This wasn’t quite intended for today, though I did go in close for the pattern colors when the swallowtail was being remarkably cooperative. Certainly acceptable for handheld macro work at f4 in natural light, of a hyperactive and normally spooky subject. Yes, your standards are that low, otherwise you wouldn’t even be here, don’t try getting picky now.<\/p>\n

But wait? A third you say? Oh, you didn’t, you were just calling me names, but there’s a third anyway, and I saved it for last because it’s easily my favorite, and indeed shot only hours before it was needed on a specific quest to get such a thing.<\/p>\n

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Yeah, I’ve done a lot of the anoles – I’ve been trying to avoid posting too many, but see above about fucking hot, and seriously, you can’t knock this image because I’ll delete your comment (and here you though no one ever commented. They don’t<\/em>, actually, but now I can pretend they do, just derogatorily, and I thus eradicate them. This is not exactly a huge step forward is it?) I had spotted this bebby Carolina anole (Anolis carolinensis<\/em>) bedding down on the gardenia bush earlier and snagged a shot before it was fully settled in, just after sundown, but later on it had adopted this position and I went in overhead for just the snout. The other leaves blocking some of the light from the softbox produced this effect, which I really like and so this one’s becoming a print very soon.<\/p>\n

There are a couple of other non-abstract images that may slip in before the day is over, though if not, they’ll be along shortly. It’s been a non-web project week, yet I’m getting back to things now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shit, July’s gotta flee the ball, leaving behind one ratty water sandal that the prince isn’t even going to risk touching and instead simply put some ‘Biohazard’ tape around and go peruse Tinder instead. Yes indeedydo, it’s the end of the month, and what kind of abstract image did our evil stepphotographer prepare for us? […]<\/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":[1529,531,4081,6874,594,6875,7330,595],"class_list":["post-35006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-abstract","tag-anolis-carolinensis","tag-carolina-anole","tag-diamond-spire-gardenia","tag-eastern-tiger-swallowtail","tag-gardenia-hybrid-leefive-ppip","tag-looking-down-here-wont-help-you","tag-papilio-glaucus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35006","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=35006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}