{"id":9634,"date":"2015-04-17T08:29:15","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T13:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=9634"},"modified":"2015-04-17T08:29:15","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T13:29:15","slug":"friday-finally-a-flower-blooms-outside-our-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=9634","title":{"rendered":"Friday: Finally a flower blooms outside our doors\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I noticed the blossoms on Monday afternoon.<br \/>\nI watched the light on Tuesday.<br \/>\nToo busy to photograph.<br \/>\nWednesday is Blue Violet day on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/newcolorgroup\/permalink\/897517043660995\/?notif_t=like\" target=\"_blank\">New Color Face Book Page<\/a>.<br \/>\nSo Wednesday morning I went out with the Hasselblad on a ground pod.<br \/>\nThe wind blew the tiny, fragile blossoms around at 15 to 20 miles per hour.<br \/>\nImpossible to focus.<br \/>\nI contemplated setting up a wind break.<br \/>\nInstead\u2026 I picked up the one stem, that the wind had fractured, and now lay in the dirt;<br \/>\nand took it inside; set it atop a mahogany pillar; where a beetle also sat.<br \/>\nOf course the beetle walked about; in and out of the frame; in and out of focus; before flying away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(click photograph for a larger view)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/A0001749.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9641 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/A0001749-e1429124727870.jpg\" alt=\"A0001749\" width=\"800\" height=\"456\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/A0001751.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9636 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/A0001751-e1429114037823.jpg\" alt=\"A0001751\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Hasselblad 500 CM\/CF-39, 80 mm Zeiss Planar on Auto Bellows<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed the blossoms on Monday afternoon. I watched the light on Tuesday. Too busy to photograph. Wednesday is Blue Violet day on the New Color Face Book Page. So Wednesday morning I went out with the Hasselblad on a ground pod. The wind blew the tiny, fragile blossoms around at 15 to 20 miles [&hellip;]<\/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-9634","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\/9634","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=9634"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9643,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9634\/revisions\/9643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}