{"id":38356,"date":"2025-02-21T20:56:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T01:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=38356"},"modified":"2025-02-21T20:56:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T01:56:33","slug":"estate-find-viii-ish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2025\/02\/estate-find-viii-ish\/","title":{"rendered":"Estate Find VIII-ish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a couple of additions from early this morning &#8211; the Estate Find posts are written a day or two beforehand so I can keep to my schedule, but this morning had good conditions so I extended it a bit.<\/p>\n<p>I woke up a little before sunrise, when I really <em>should<\/em> be waking up but I&#8217;m usually up too late the night before (or earlier that same morning,) so it often doesn&#8217;t happen. But I looked out at the clear sky and knew I had to do something, and as the sun began climbing from beneath the horizon, the first opportunity presented itself.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/JustTheTips.jpg\" alt=\"ice-covered bare American sweetgum Liquidambar styraciflua tree catching the first orange rays of the rising sun\" width=\"750\" height=\"1475\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38357\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>As much as this looks like something from the early spring, this is the sun just catching the ice-covered top branches of an American sweetgum (<em>Liquidambar styraciflua<\/em>,) and I realize as I insert this that it&#8217;s &#8220;LiquidambAr&#8221; and not &#8220;LiquidambEr&#8221; as I&#8217;ve probably typed it before, so ignore all the previous incorrect renderings of the scientific name. The sunlight was only this orange for a few minutes and went through yellow to white pretty quickly. I did a bunch of upper-branch photos as it progressed, and even tried to frame the half (&#8220;third-quarter&#8221;) moon in with the glittering ice, but the sun angle wasn&#8217;t optimal to produce that and all I got were a couple of faint sparkles. But as I was getting breakfast, a thought occurred to me before I&#8217;d gotten too far, and staged a simple photo<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/MorningTea.jpg\" alt=\"backlit hot mug of tea steaming on snow-covered surface\" width=\"750\" height=\"1125\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38358\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>The breeze, which didn&#8217;t even feel present, was just a hair too strong most of the time and the steam from my tea was laying out almost horizontally, but I was ready when it shifted. Came out well for a spur of the moment composition.<\/p>\n<p>The one I really like, however, is this one<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/FindTheAngle.jpg\" alt=\"ice-covered Japanese maple catching the morning sun from behind with multi-colored sunbursts\" width=\"750\" height=\"867\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38359\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>This is only a tight crop of a larger frame, with no other editing &#8211; the colors really were like this. You just have to find the right angle, and shoot at a small aperture to get the starbursts, of course. This&#8217;ll be a print soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a couple of additions from early this morning &#8211; the Estate Find posts are written a day or two beforehand so I can keep to my schedule, but this morning had good conditions so I extended it a bit. I woke up a little before sunrise, when I really should be waking up 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":[4,3],"tags":[3594,6837,7999,7998,5524,3236,3277],"class_list":["post-38356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-american-sweetgum","tag-backlighting","tag-hot-tea","tag-ice-covered","tag-japanese-maple","tag-liquidambar-styraciflua","tag-starbursts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38356","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=38356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}