{"id":7,"date":"2008-05-07T20:45:20","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T01:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/?p=7"},"modified":"2008-05-07T20:46:35","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T01:46:35","slug":"tip-toe-through-the-tulips-in-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/2008\/05\/tip-toe-through-the-tulips-in-the-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip toe through the tulips in the rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I looked out the kitchen window, and at the back fence, I saw that the tulips were coming up. Woo hoo. I have been waiting for flowers to come back around here. I like shooting flowers. Anyway, it was a bit of a trick to take their picture. It was raining. I grabbed Kate&#8217;s umbrella. Oh yea, I only had one hand for the camera, and the  50mm F1.8 I had on my camera is manual focus on my D40.<\/p>\n<p>So, what I did was to hold the umbrella in one hand, the camera in the other with the focus set for as close as possible. Then I crouched down with focus just short of the flower. Then I took pictures as a slowly leaned in. I figured something had to be in focus.<\/p>\n<p>This is what I got. Click for larger on flickr.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Red Tulip by v3ggi32u, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/v3ggi32u\/2473627647\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2246\/2473627647_20c420e908_m.jpg?resize=240%2C240\" alt=\"Red Tulip\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Spring Tulips by v3ggi32u, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/v3ggi32u\/2473627789\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2306\/2473627789_98d7d7a424_m.jpg?resize=159%2C240\" alt=\"Spring Tulips\" width=\"159\" height=\"240\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I looked out the kitchen window, and at the back fence, I saw that the tulips were coming up. Woo hoo. I have been waiting for flowers to come back around here. I like shooting flowers. Anyway, it was a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/2008\/05\/tip-toe-through-the-tulips-in-the-rain\/\">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":[12],"series":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pffAy-7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberward.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}