{"id":752,"date":"2011-01-03T17:58:35","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T00:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/?p=752"},"modified":"2011-07-14T23:21:44","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T05:21:44","slug":"pic-of-the-day-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/2011\/01\/03\/pic-of-the-day-36\/","title":{"rendered":"Melting Ice on a Tamarack Branch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another shot from the same day (as the last pic of the day). It was a warm December day and a fresh snowfall was melting and re-freezing into ice on the Tamarack trees (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Larix_laricina\">Larix Laricina<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The background is a completely natural artifact of having a large telephoto lens, leaving the aperture as open as possible, and having a fairly low quality lens. The telephoto focal length along with the wide open aperture (f5.6 in this case) made the background completely blurred out. The bright highlights become circles. If I had a much nicer lens, they might be softer-edged and not as distracting. I kind of like the way they turned out though. I suspect the little specks in them mean I had a lot of dust on the end of my lens.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another shot from the same day (as the last pic of the day). It was a warm December day and a fresh snowfall was melting and re-freezing into ice on the Tamarack trees (Larix Laricina). The background is a completely natural artifact of having a large telephoto lens, leaving the aperture as open as possible, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,730,87,740],"tags":[935,932,929,928,937,921,934,933,923,926,931,927,936,925,922,415,162,930,924],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forest-2","category-macro-2","category-photo-of-the-day","category-winter-2","tag-branch","tag-bright-highlights","tag-focal-length","tag-fresh-snowfall","tag-larch","tag-large-telephoto-lens","tag-larix-laricina","tag-little-specks","tag-low-quality-lens","tag-melting-ice","tag-open-aperture","tag-tamarack-branch","tag-tamarack-larch","tag-tamarack-trees","tag-telephoto-focal-length","tag-telephoto-lens","tag-trees","tag-warm-december","tag-wide-open-aperture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1460,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions\/1460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}