{"id":9123,"date":"2014-08-23T08:41:34","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T13:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=9123"},"modified":"2014-08-23T09:15:48","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T14:15:48","slug":"a-day-with-the-leitz-apo-macro-elmarit-r-12-8-100-on-the-m-240","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=9123","title":{"rendered":"A day with the Leitz Apo\u2014Macro\u2014Elmarit\u2014R 1:2.8 \/ 100 on the M (240)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(click photograph for larger view)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Dust to dust. Wabi (<span style=\"color: #222222;\">a quality of austere and serene beauty expressing a mood of spiritual solitude recognized in Zen Buddhist philosophy.)\u00a0<\/span>Sabi (<span style=\"color: #1a1a1a;\">\u201cThe concept\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"color: #1a1a1a;\">sabi<\/em><span style=\"color: #1a1a1a;\">\u00a0carries not only the meaning \u2018aged\u2019\u2014in the sense of \u2018ripe with experience and insight\u2019 as well as \u2018infused with the patina that lends old things their beauty\u2019\u2014but also that of tranquility, aloneness, deep solitude\u201d (Hammitzsch, 46).)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/L1000415.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9124 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/L1000415-e1408800636804.jpg\" alt=\"L1000415\" width=\"517\" height=\"720\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sophia and Tanya enjoying our new old hot tub for the first time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/L1000417.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9125 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/L1000417-e1408800661520.jpg\" alt=\"L1000417\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/L1000418.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9126 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/L1000418-e1408800684322.jpg\" alt=\"L1000418\" width=\"720\" height=\"481\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/L1000420.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9127 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/L1000420-e1408800709874.jpg\" alt=\"L1000420\" width=\"720\" height=\"481\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/L1000421.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9128 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/L1000421-e1408800736945.jpg\" alt=\"L1000421\" width=\"481\" height=\"720\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/L1000422.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9134 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/L1000422-e1408801057117.jpg\" alt=\"L1000422\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/L1000423.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9129 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/L1000423-e1408800608707.jpg\" alt=\"L1000423\" width=\"720\" height=\"556\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Frog<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/L1000424.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9130 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/L1000424-e1408800785999.jpg\" alt=\"L1000424\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Two Frogs<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/L1000425.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9131 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/L1000425-e1408800556432.jpg\" alt=\"L1000425\" width=\"720\" height=\"481\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Garage visitor<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/L1000427.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9132 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/L1000427-e1408800526818.jpg\" alt=\"L1000427\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sunset on the pond<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/L1000428.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9133 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/L1000428-e1408800501272.jpg\" alt=\"L1000428\" width=\"398\" height=\"720\" 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Wabi (a quality of austere and serene beauty expressing a mood of spiritual solitude recognized in Zen Buddhist philosophy.)\u00a0Sabi (\u201cThe concept\u00a0sabi\u00a0carries not only the meaning \u2018aged\u2019\u2014in the sense of \u2018ripe with experience and insight\u2019 as well as \u2018infused with the patina that lends old things their beauty\u2019\u2014but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[3,51,27,54,55,33,34,17,28,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-thoughts","category-documentary","category-family-and-friends","category-fawna","category-flora","category-natural-world","category-people","category-photography","category-travel","category-up-close","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9123","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9123"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9138,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9123\/revisions\/9138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}