{"id":6445,"date":"2021-03-07T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/?p=6445"},"modified":"2021-03-07T11:10:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T10:10:01","slug":"that-old-tree-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/archives\/6445","title":{"rendered":"That old tree again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There is an old wind blasted oak tree close to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/River_Esk,_Lothian\">North Esk River<\/a> that I like to visit. It is just within the area we are allowed to visit under the current Covid restrictions. Doing the tree justice in a photograph is really hard. The best composition is from due South and the early and late light is cut off by the surrounding trees and hills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/img20210227_14410243.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/img20210227_14410243-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/img20210227_14410243-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/img20210227_14410243-512x640.jpg 512w, https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/img20210227_14410243-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/img20210227_14410243-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/img20210227_14410243-1280x1600.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/img20210227_14410243.jpg 1638w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Blasted Oak. My own dry glass dry plate Voigtl\u00e4nder Avus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is perhaps my most successful attempt. I was walking with my lightweight dry plate kit which consists of five plate holders, a modified 1920&#8217;s Voigtl\u00e4nder Avus and a small tripod. The combination of century old uncoated optics and crude glass plates, that lack an anti-halation backing, give it a ghostly air.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an old wind blasted oak tree close to the North Esk River that I like to visit. It is just within the area we are allowed to visit under the current Covid restrictions. Doing the tree justice in a photograph is really hard. The best composition is from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6447,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6445\/revisions\/6447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}