{"id":10299,"date":"2015-10-30T21:36:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T01:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=10299"},"modified":"2015-10-30T21:36:16","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T01:36:16","slug":"060366-falling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2015\/10\/30\/060366-falling\/","title":{"rendered":"060\/366: Falling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is basically the shot I was trying to get yesterday when I ended up settling for an evil squirrel: a leaf in mid-fall.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10300\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10300\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/files\/2015\/10\/sm_falling.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/files\/2015\/10\/sm_falling.jpg\" alt=\"Falling leaf in late October.\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/sm_falling.jpg 600w, http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/sm_falling-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10300\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Falling leaf in late October.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is, of course, damnably difficult to get, as it&#8217;s impossible to guess when a specific leaf will drop, and if you throw them up into the air, they don&#8217;t stay airborne long enough to bring the camera up and focus it. And, you know, I could recruit somebody to toss leaves in the air for me, but I&#8217;m not sure that would make me feel any less a dumbass than standing in the yard with my camera staring up at the maple over the driveway.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not quite perfect&#8211; there&#8217;s a lens-flare sort of thing arcing across the middle, because the Sun is just out of the frame to the upper right. But it&#8217;s pretty close, and I got it without cheating, so that feels good.<\/p>\n<p>(Of course, later in the day, I was out in the yard with SteelyKid and The Pip, flinging rakefuls of leaves up into the air so they could run around in mini leaf tornados, which would&#8217;ve been a cool shot, too&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is basically the shot I was trying to get yesterday when I ended up settling for an evil squirrel: a leaf in mid-fall. This is, of course, damnably difficult to get, as it&#8217;s impossible to guess when a specific leaf will drop, and if you throw them up into the air, they don&#8217;t stay&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2015\/10\/30\/060366-falling\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">060\/366: Falling<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[684,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-684","category-pictures","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}