{"id":462,"date":"2017-09-27T00:01:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T05:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/?p=462"},"modified":"2017-09-27T00:31:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T05:31:50","slug":"its-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/2017\/09\/27\/its-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s fall!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fall (autumn equinox) was\u00a0Friday, September 22 (today)at 4:02 PM. \u00a0Happy fall, y&#8217;all.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t feel much like fall yet outside while it&#8217;s still 90\u00ba during the day at some point. We haven&#8217;t had rain in a while so things are drying out pretty good but that is totally normal. Frankly surprised it didn&#8217;t dry up a bit in August but August was cool and wet for us here.<\/p>\n<p>I took a lunch break and saw the bees actively getting all the honey they could. I think this is a golden rod plant which I masked to black and white to show the bee a little better. The sun was wicked bright today so the light was quite harsh.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_467\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-467\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0987-Edit_edit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-467\" src=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0987-Edit_edit-1024x580.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0987-Edit_edit-1024x580.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0987-Edit_edit-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0987-Edit_edit-768x435.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-467\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bee on Golden Rod<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When I look at this photo on the blog it looks &#8220;fake&#8221;. But it&#8217;s really not. here is the unmasked photo:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0987_edit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-468\" src=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0987_edit-1024x580.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0987_edit-1024x580.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0987_edit-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0987_edit-768x435.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s so interesting what you can do with a computer and photography these days. I often wonder how one would go about doing something like this if all we had to work with was a negative and dark room. I suspect it would be quite difficult if not impossible.<\/p>\n<p>This is easy to do with Photoshop. Just create a black and white layer mask and &#8220;unmask&#8221; where you want to color to come through. A few &#8220;scribbles&#8221; with a mouse or Wacom pencil will complete the work.<\/p>\n<p>I flew my drone about \u00be mile away from home to check out the pavement on 287 near our home. I didn&#8217;t make it off the property today so I have no idea of their progress. Turns out the road is still not paved.<\/p>\n<p>While I was up there I took a few photos of the farm. Here&#8217;s one above the back fields after a hay harvest today. The drone was about 100 meters in the air at the time.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_469\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-469\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/G0010549_edit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-469\" src=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/G0010549_edit-1024x564.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/G0010549_edit-1024x564.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/G0010549_edit-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/G0010549_edit-768x423.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-469\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fall hay harvest complete<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With no clouds in the sky it&#8217;s easy to take some high contrast black and white images. When I was looking at the images I was trying to figure out why my camera had these dots on the image. When I zoomed in it was clear that these are spiders building their night webs in the tall grass. If I posted this on Facebook all that detail would be erased. But if you click on the picture below you&#8217;ll see them.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_470\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-470\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1017_edit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-470\" src=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1017_edit-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1017_edit-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1017_edit-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1017_edit-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-470\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunset and spiders in the grass<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Another fall day begins early tomorrow morning. All critters here have found their safe spot, box or both. I hope you&#8217;ve found yours too.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_472\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-472\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/G0010571_edit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-472\" src=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/G0010571_edit-1024x747.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/G0010571_edit-1024x747.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/G0010571_edit-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/westerman.photo\/wp-content\/uploads\/G0010571_edit-768x561.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-472\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First Person View (FPV); Selfie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>That is all for now.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>zw+pmbtDsl7HAVqTKNMU4Pz2CeNXx4Pc4IzO+FKcLEp1ja5aQxA65wqIujpgD0d28fFvYCJiEIBN1vr4DVo0SaX2eKE=<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fall (autumn equinox) was\u00a0Friday, September 22 (today)at 4:02 PM. \u00a0Happy fall, y&#8217;all. It doesn&#8217;t feel much like fall yet outside while it&#8217;s still 90\u00ba during the day at some point. We haven&#8217;t had rain in a while so things are drying out pretty good but that is totally normal. Frankly surprised it didn&#8217;t dry up &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/2017\/09\/27\/its-fall\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s fall!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,17,16,22,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-home","category-photography","category-public","category-radio-controlled-aircraft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions\/474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westerman.photo\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}