{"id":10734,"date":"2016-04-18T11:49:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T16:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=10734"},"modified":"2016-04-18T11:49:50","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T16:49:50","slug":"spring-stroll-and-checking-in-with-the-neighbors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=10734","title":{"rendered":"Spring stroll and checking in with the neighbors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(right click open in new tab or window for larger view)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10735\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/L1002039-Edit-Edit-Edit-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"L1002039-Edit-Edit-Edit-Edit\" width=\"549\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/L1002039-Edit-Edit-Edit-Edit.jpg 905w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/L1002039-Edit-Edit-Edit-Edit-103x150.jpg 103w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/L1002039-Edit-Edit-Edit-Edit-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/L1002039-Edit-Edit-Edit-Edit-768x1119.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/L1002039-Edit-Edit-Edit-Edit-703x1024.jpg 703w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Great Blue Heron is more of a visitor than a neighbor.<br \/>\nAnd I chose to &#8220;posterize&#8221; the photograph because the creature took off before I could get it in focus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10737\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/L1002044.jpg\" alt=\"L1002044\" width=\"800\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/L1002044.jpg 1304w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/L1002044-150x106.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/L1002044-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/L1002044-768x542.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/L1002044-1024x722.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10738\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/L1002047.jpg\" alt=\"L1002047\" width=\"800\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/L1002047.jpg 1304w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/L1002047-150x106.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/L1002047-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/L1002047-768x542.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/L1002047-1024x723.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10739\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/L1002049.jpg\" alt=\"L1002049\" width=\"800\" height=\"809\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/L1002049.jpg 1304w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/L1002049-148x150.jpg 148w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/L1002049-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/L1002049-768x777.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/L1002049-1012x1024.jpg 1012w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10740\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/L1002050.jpg\" alt=\"L1002050\" width=\"800\" height=\"809\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/L1002050.jpg 1304w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/L1002050-148x150.jpg 148w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/L1002050-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/L1002050-768x777.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/L1002050-1012x1024.jpg 1012w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10741\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/L1002039.jpg\" alt=\"L1002039\" width=\"355\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/L1002039.jpg 586w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/L1002039-67x150.jpg 67w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/L1002039-133x300.jpg 133w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/L1002039-455x1024.jpg 455w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 355px) 100vw, 355px\" \/>\u00a0The Great Blue without posterization.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Leica M, 560 mm Telyt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(right click open in new tab or window for larger view) The Great Blue Heron is more of a visitor than a neighbor. And I chose to &#8220;posterize&#8221; the photograph because the creature took off before I could get it in focus. \u00a0The Great Blue without posterization. Leica M, 560 mm Telyt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-thoughts","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10734"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10745,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10734\/revisions\/10745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}