{"id":7714,"date":"2012-04-21T08:53:25","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T12:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=7714"},"modified":"2012-04-21T08:53:25","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T12:53:25","slug":"good-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2012\/04\/good-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Good morning!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/12Mantis21.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"12Mantis21\" width=\"730\" height=\"509\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/12Mantis21.jpg 730w, https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/12Mantis21-400x278.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/12Mantis22.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"12Mantis22\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/12Mantis22.jpg 500w, https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/12Mantis22-400x600.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>I thought I was pretty fortunate to discover a few tiny praying mantises on the azalea bushes out front yesterday, until I went out this morning right after sunrise when the dew still hadn&#8217;t cleared&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If you look closely at the top pic, you&#8217;ll see a large dewdrop adhering right between the mantis&#8217; eyes. Which means, if you look at the image to the left, that forward bump by the antennae isn&#8217;t the other eye on the far side, but that dewdrop again.<\/p>\n<p>My model here is about 20mm long (less than an inch.) These were taken with the Vivitar bellows and the Vivitar 135 2.8, Metz 40MZ-3i strobe on-camera direct (top) and off-camera above subject with Lumiquest Big Bounce diffuser (bottom). Oh, and a Canon 300D\/Digital Rebel &#8211; yes, the first one. <em>Now<\/em> do you think you really need the latest and bestest? In fact, everything used today except for the tripod was bought used &#8211; and the tripod&#8217;s fourteen years old&#8230;<br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I was pretty fortunate to discover a few tiny praying mantises on the azalea bushes out front yesterday, until I went out this morning right after sunrise when the dew still hadn&#8217;t cleared&#8230; If you look closely at the top pic, you&#8217;ll see a large dewdrop adhering right between the mantis&#8217; eyes. Which [&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":[590,1208,246,591],"class_list":["post-7714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-chinese-mantid","tag-dewdrops","tag-praying-mantis","tag-tenodera-aridifolia-sinensis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7714","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=7714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}