{"id":9,"date":"2008-05-15T12:55:21","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T17:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/?p=9"},"modified":"2008-05-16T16:02:11","modified_gmt":"2008-05-16T21:02:11","slug":"flower-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/2008\/05\/flower-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Flower Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am glad that what appears to be my favorite subject, <a title=\"flowers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/v3ggi32u\/sets\/72157602737302774\/\">flowers<\/a>, are back. I wouldn&#8217;t have guessed that when I first got my camera, but judging by the number of pictures I have taken, it seems to be a close second to pictures of my kids.<\/p>\n<p>I currently have this one as my background at work:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0463 by v3ggi32u, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/v3ggi32u\/2491324802\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3282\/2491324802_00e5e183c7_m.jpg?resize=240%2C170\" alt=\"DSC_0463\" width=\"240\" height=\"170\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was growing in my grass in the front yard. I take lots of pictures from my yard, or the neighbors when I go out for walks by myself or with the girls. It is hard to get landscapes in the south end of Minneapolis, but flowers&#8230; we got plenty.<\/p>\n<p>I am also happy with the 50mm f1.8 I got. I wasn&#8217;t sure if I would like it, not being able to auto focus. I am getting better at it, having finally adjusted the diopter on my camera correctly for me. I especially love the bokeh that I can get with it when I take pictures of flowers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am glad that what appears to be my favorite subject, flowers, are back. I wouldn&#8217;t have guessed that when I first got my camera, but judging by the number of pictures I have taken, it seems to be a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/2008\/05\/flower-power\/\">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],"series":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pffAy-9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9"}],"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=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}