{"id":1117,"date":"2009-05-06T07:19:21","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T13:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2009-05-06T07:19:21","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T13:19:21","slug":"back-to-my-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/back-to-my-roots\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to my Roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring is finally here. Well, it has been for a bit, but my backyard has been slow to bloom. I have often taken pictures of flowers from my backyard, but it seems like it has been forever since I have been able to do that. We finally got the tulips to bloom, and I took a couple of pictures.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"Rain on Yellow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/v3ggi32u\/3505751591\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3611\/3505751591_55ee9285cb.jpg?resize=358%2C500\" alt=\"Rain on Yellow\" width=\"358\" height=\"500\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>\u00ac\u2020<\/p>\n<p>I had the girls help me. Their favorite thing is to get the spray bottle and spray everything in the backyard, except the flowers I am trying to photograph. It had rained earlier in the day, but we needed to add a bit of water by the time I took these in the early evening.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"Rain on Red\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/v3ggi32u\/3505751549\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3663\/3505751549_450212e7ba.jpg?resize=358%2C500\" alt=\"Rain on Red\" width=\"358\" height=\"500\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>\u00ac\u2020<\/p>\n<p>Once again, I am taking these with my Nikon 50mm f\/1.8. I love the bookah that I get from that lens. I can get the focus better with this lens too. I am not convinced that my Tamron 17-50 focuses properly. I am looking at sending it in. So, it probably means that I will be using the niffty 50 for most of my pictures after sending the Tamron in. But that&#8217;s ok. It is sometimes a little too big when taking pictures of the kids, I have to back up further than I want to, but I still like the pictures I get from it of them.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"Big Little Jump\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/v3ggi32u\/3506561814\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3340\/3506561814_e4acbe3715.jpg?resize=358%2C500\" alt=\"Big Little Jump\" width=\"358\" height=\"500\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>\u00ac\u2020<\/p>\n<p>These two were the reason I picked up a DSLR in the first place, so it is good that I am getting back to taking pictures of them. I have been trying to concentrate on getting portrait pictures for a new portfolio that I haven&#8217;t taken\u00ac\u2020many pictures of my kids lately. But now that it is nice out again, we will go for\u00ac\u2020more walks and hikes, which will present more\u00ac\u2020oportunities for pictures than just the sidewalk in front of our house.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"Behind the Railing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/v3ggi32u\/3505751359\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3110\/3505751359_0716b16a0e.jpg?resize=358%2C500\" alt=\"Behind the Railing\" width=\"358\" height=\"500\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring is finally here. Well, it has been for a bit, but my backyard has been slow to bloom. I have often taken pictures of flowers from my backyard, but it seems like it has been forever since I have &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/back-to-my-roots\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[19,190],"series":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pffAy-i1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}