{"id":40238,"date":"2025-10-31T01:15:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T05:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=40238"},"modified":"2025-10-30T11:15:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:15:45","slug":"kill-the-stage-lights-on-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2025\/10\/kill-the-stage-lights-on-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Kill the stage lights on October"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, we’ve reached the end, which should be plentiful obvious if you’re in the US at least, as the frivolous but nonetheless enjoyable holiday rolls in. As we discovered last year, we see practically no Trick-or-Treaters here at Walkabout Estates Plus, which is kind of a shame<\/a> – we’ll see what happens this evening.<\/p>\n

But the End-Of-Month Abstract waits for no one! Well, except me sometimes when I forget it’s coming up and post late. This is not one of those times, so let’s see what October has in its treat bowl.<\/p>\n

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I ‘discovered’ this one when looking at the original, since this is a close crop, and I’ll be back to explain it later. But it fits, at least.<\/p>\n

And another, the one I had originally slotted for this, also unintentional:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I was on the fine edge of discarding this one during the sort, until I realized how it looked when cropped. This was an exposure mistake that occurred (notice how I didn’t say, “that I made”?) while getting the images that I used<\/a> – it’s all about flash angle and what’s blocked and all that jazz, so it happens from time to time, and why digital has its uses. But the surreal effect is pretty slick, I think – the eye is what makes it work – and this may be a print soon. Or sooner, if anyone specifically requests it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, we’ve reached the end, which should be plentiful obvious if you’re in the US at least, as the frivolous but nonetheless enjoyable holiday rolls in. As we discovered last year, we see practically no Trick-or-Treaters here at Walkabout Estates Plus, which is kind of a shame – we’ll see what happens this evening. But […]<\/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":[1529,531,8345,4081,3648],"class_list":["post-40238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-abstract","tag-anolis-carolinensis","tag-blast-that-exposure","tag-carolina-anole","tag-hint-hint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40238","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=40238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}