{"id":35787,"date":"2023-12-08T00:35:50","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T05:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=35787"},"modified":"2023-12-07T21:36:16","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T02:36:16","slug":"living-in-the-past-xx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2023\/12\/living-in-the-past-xx\/","title":{"rendered":"Living in the past XX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/HalictidaePartridgePea.jpg\" alt=\"green sweat bee Halictidae on partridge pea Chamaecrista fasciculata blossom\" width=\"730\" height=\"566\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17503\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>To me, this one just all came together nicely. The complementary colors of course, but the V-shape of the line of blossoms and the fernlike leaves working the corners, the short range of sharpness, and the position and lighting on the sweat bee just worked. A certain amount of this was serendipity, since I had only a moment to frame things while the bee was present, and was mostly concerned with leaving space out to the right since that&#8217;s the way the bee was facing, but I did notice the green leaves and twitched enough to include them completely. Of course, you want a large print for your living room&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To me, this one just all came together nicely. The complementary colors of course, but the V-shape of the line of blossoms and the fernlike leaves working the corners, the short range of sharpness, and the position and lighting on the sweat bee just worked. A certain amount of this was serendipity, since I had [&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":[3105,3102,7400,3104,3103],"class_list":["post-35787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-chamaecrista-fasciculata","tag-halictidae","tag-how-many-can-i-put-you-down-for","tag-partridge-pea","tag-sweat-bee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35787","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=35787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}