{"id":567,"date":"2015-08-17T13:35:53","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T03:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mirrormere.andulain.net\/?p=567"},"modified":"2015-11-09T22:53:46","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T11:53:46","slug":"beautiful-but-deadly-if-youre-an-insect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mirrormere.andulain.net\/?p=567","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful But Deadly If You&#8217;re an Insect&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday afternoon I spent a couple of hours shooting Sundew that I have growing (natively) up the back of the yard. I&#8217;ve always been fascinated by <em>Carnivorous Plants<\/em>, and although <em>Sundew<\/em> aren&#8217;t as &#8220;notorious&#8221; as <em>Venus Flytraps<\/em>, or <em>Pitcher Plants<\/em>, they&#8217;re just as interesting. I think I&#8217;m very lucky to have these fascinating plants growing in my backyard &#8220;as is&#8221; mostly all year around. Not sure I&#8217;ve noticed them flowering every year though, but I guess they must.<\/p>\n<p>These ones seem to have only a single flower at a time or possibly one only each time they flower (currently not sure). I believe this one to be <em>Drosera Rosulata \u201cgiant\u201d ( white flowers )<\/em>, and I&#8217;m fairly certain the critters around the Stamen are Mites.<\/p>\n<p>These were a good opportunity for the &#8220;Stacking&#8221; technique I&#8217;m using at times, as they are extremely low to the ground, so tend not to move even in a mild breeze. Of course there&#8217;s always the chance that the lighting levels can change drastically and quickly at this time of years, but I hoped to get around that by a higher number of shots with more overlap of DoF. That allowed me to drop several if I needed to because the light wasn&#8217;t consistent.<\/p>\n<p>Although this shot had preliminary work in <strong>Lightroom (Ver. 6)<\/strong> it was then exported and worked on in <strong>Helicon Focus<\/strong> before being finally finished off in <strong>DXO <\/strong>(just to make you happy Stefan) which I&#8217;ve not used much yet. I think it&#8217;s come up quite well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday afternoon I spent a couple of hours shooting Sundew that I have growing (natively) up the back of the yard. I&#8217;ve always been fascinated by Carnivorous Plants, and although Sundew aren&#8217;t as &#8220;notorious&#8221; as Venus Flytraps, or Pitcher Plants, they&#8217;re just as interesting. I think I&#8217;m very lucky to have these fascinating plants growing&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mirrormere.andulain.net\/?p=567\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"chat","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-chat","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-close-up","category-flora","category-macro","post_format-post-format-chat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirrormere.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirrormere.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirrormere.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirrormere.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirrormere.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mirrormere.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574,"href":"https:\/\/mirrormere.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions\/574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirrormere.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirrormere.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirrormere.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirrormere.andulain.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}