{"id":39043,"date":"2025-05-31T01:00:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T05:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=39043"},"modified":"2025-05-30T22:00:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T02:00:48","slug":"mother-may-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2025\/05\/mother-may-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother May I?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; post the end of the month abstract?<\/p>\n<p>Waaayyy too much like others, but this is what I got, except for some that have already been posted. Maybe I&#8217;ll go create another tonight (this is being written the night before it posts.) Anyway,<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Ginkgorbs.jpg\" alt=\"large water droplets on ginkgo Ginkgo biloba leaf\" width=\"750\" height=\"1014\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39044\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>Give me credit for picking the right angle, at least. I took several from this vantage, because the depth-of-field was so short and the focal point is pretty crucial. Notice that several of the drops are acting as lenses to show the water drops <em>behind<\/em> them, and yes, the flash angle was important too. It&#8217;s fun to experiment with things like this.<\/p>\n<p>This is a leaf of one of the ginkgo trees, by the way, seen directly from the side. We&#8217;ve had a hell of a lot of rain this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; post the end of the month abstract? Waaayyy too much like others, but this is what I got, except for some that have already been posted. Maybe I&#8217;ll go create another tonight (this is being written the night before it posts.) Anyway, Give me credit for picking the right angle, at least. I took [&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":[1529,3446,3447,5057],"class_list":["post-39043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-abstract","tag-ginkgo","tag-ginkgo-biloba","tag-more-goddamn-water-drops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39043","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=39043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}