{"id":1171,"date":"2017-10-08T20:58:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T01:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2017\/10\/08\/171008_hsbphotos\/"},"modified":"2023-10-10T14:48:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T19:48:48","slug":"171008_hsbphotos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2017\/10\/08\/171008_hsbphotos\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature…as I see it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of my goals in retirement is to spend more time with my camera, doing some creative things with it and Photoshop. I’ve managed to check off a few projects on a rather lengthy list, so yesterday I grabbed my macro lens and ring flash and went hunting. Here are some of the subjects that caught my eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s a particularly gnarled oak tree in the lot adjacent to ours. I see the face of an owl. What do you see?<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Abundant rainfall and high humidity create blankets of moss on tree limbs.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I don’t know what species of grass this is, but the seedheads are unique.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I was so focused on the wasp that I never noticed the mayfly (that’s what I’m calling it in the absence of any actual knowledge) until I placed the image here.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The turtle is the anchor for this photo, but there’s lots more going on if you look closely enough.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Toadstools and mushrooms are abundant lately.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This grasshopper appears to be praying over its dinner salad.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Granite boulders of all sizes litter the banks of Pecan Creek.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yes, it’s a moth.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Someone has requested photos of deer. I aim to please.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here are some logs for your viewing pleasure.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’m sure you noticed that a few of the preceding photos showed a bit of Photoshop manipulation. I sometimes do that in an attempt to bring a different perspective to a familiar scene or subject; mostly it’s simply to enhance the image (I have some really good lenses, but a really mediocre camera).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But sometimes, it’s just for fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By day and from a distance, it’s a rather unassuming live oak trunk…<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But when the sun goes down, it’s a whole other story…<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I love the look of these tree fungi. This one is growing horizontally almost six inches on the trunk of a live oak next to our house. The color gradiation is simply amazing (and, no, that’s NOT Photoshop at work).<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But as I contemplate this photo, it reminds me of something else…<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I started to boast that from now to eternity, whenever someone googles “Donald Duck fungus,” this is the only page they’ll get. But when I decided to double-check my boast, I found that I’m not even the first to use the term<\/a>, much less the only one. Sheesh.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my goals in retirement is to spend more time with my camera, doing some creative things with it and Photoshop. I’ve managed to check off a few projects on a rather lengthy list, so yesterday I grabbed my macro lens and ring flash and went hunting. Here are some of the subjects that… Continue reading Nature…as I see it<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":[5,6,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photography","category-texas-hill-country","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12605,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions\/12605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}