![\"unidentified](\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/SeptemberBat1.jpg\")
Or, horizontal?<\/p>\n
Again, sunset looked promising, so to the neighborhood pond I went. Again, sunset didn’t live up to its promise, so I chased a few other pics while there.<\/p>\n
Notably, the bats were active, and while I had only the 18-135, I got a couple of frames that worked. You get to decide which crop works best for this one, though – vertical?<\/p>\n
Or, horizontal?<\/p>\n
Plus, I chased a couple of other compositions while I ensured that the sky would get no less boring.<\/p>\n And finally,<\/p>\n Again, sunset looked promising, so to the neighborhood pond I went. Again, sunset didn’t live up to its promise, so I chased a few other pics while there. Notably, the bats were active, and while I had only the 18-135, I got a couple of frames that worked. You get to decide which crop works […]<\/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":[7387,2459,3878,350],"class_list":["post-35319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-bats","tag-dragonfly","tag-fartsy","tag-sunset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35319","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=35319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"unidentified](\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/SeptemberBat2.jpg\")
I was just winging it (heh!<\/em>), not expecting to get too much with the shorter reach of the lens, the velocity of the subject, and the fading light, but I was pleased to pull a little wing detail out of a few frames. This is nearly full-resolution:<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"unidentified](\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/SeptemberBat4.jpg\")
Don’t ask me for the species, because I could see no color any better than this, plus I was unable to even judge size\/distance. I did see a brief dogfight while there, two bats winding around so close together they overlapped in multiple frames, but what that was all about I can’t say, because I’m a discreet neighbor.<\/p>\n![\"lone](\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/GumFocus.jpg\")
Getting a sharp frame of this took some playing around, because the light was disappearing, but by intentionally underexposing I was able to get this. What I like about it is, the leaf is totally isolated on the water – the thick ‘stem’ is simply a reflection of a branch, but it’s easy to escape notice.<\/p>\n![\"unidentified](\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/PeachDragonfly.jpg\")
As the color was fading from the clouds, I had to crouch and move around a bit to put it behind the dragonfly, but at least it’s more than acceptably sharp. For ten minutes of playing around all told, it works for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"