{"id":1445,"date":"2013-07-28T14:52:12","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T14:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsrider.com\/blog\/?p=1445"},"modified":"2013-07-28T14:52:12","modified_gmt":"2013-07-28T14:52:12","slug":"photos-of-the-day-saturday-july-27-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/2013\/07\/28\/photos-of-the-day-saturday-july-27-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos of the day, Saturday, July 27, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the second hike in for the new post-drought season, I’ve taken a new camera to the mountain to see if it’s a “keeper” or whether I’ll simply return it to E-Bay from whence it came.<\/p>\n

Although I didn’t get any time to look at the manual before starting the hike, I have a good feeling about it. \u00a0More testing to come this weekend.<\/p>\n

First I came upon a Tufted Geranium or the Purple wild Geranium<\/p>\n

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Shot in macro mode – using auto focus. \u00a0Not until the last two images did I try the manual focus with the camera.\"columbine1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Columbine – with great back lighting.<\/p>\n

I included the ant in this next image so you can see just how small the flowers are on the Stanley’s \u00a0Four O’clock .<\/p>\n

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Next – Showy Goldeneye<\/p>\n

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Slideshows of New Mexico Wildflowers can be found on the slideshow pages<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the second hike in for the new post-drought season, I’ve taken a new camera to the mountain to see if it’s a “keeper” or whether I’ll simply return it to E-Bay from whence it came. Although I didn’t get any time to look at the manual before starting the hike, I have a good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,34,41],"tags":[166,181],"class_list":["post-1445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-mexico-wildflowers-wildflowers","category-wildflowers","category-wildflowers-of-the-sandia-mountains","tag-showy-goldeneye","tag-stanleys-four-oclock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}