{"id":1207,"date":"2009-05-11T22:18:49","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T13:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2009-05-11\/1207"},"modified":"2009-05-11T22:18:49","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T13:18:49","slug":"big-ferns-on-ishigaki-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2009-05-11\/1207","title":{"rendered":"Big Ferns on Ishigaki Island"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class='resize_warning' id='w9271352343992'>\n<b>NOTE<\/b>: Images with an <img class='raw' width='19' height='18' src='\/i\/s\/red_zoomup.gif'\/> icon next to them have been artificially shrunk to better fit your screen; click the icon to restore them, in place, to their regular size.\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>On the first day of our trip to Ishigaki Island (southern Japan),\nbetween <a href=\"\/blog\/2009-05-07\/1204\" class='quiet'>our\narrival<\/a> and <a href=\"\/blog\/2009-05-10\/1206\"\nclass='quiet'>stopping for the sunset<\/a>, we drove around on the island <span class='nobr'>a\nbit.<\/span> Driving on <span class='nobr'>a pretty<\/span> rough road that <span class='nobr'>I thought<\/span> took us to the top of <span class='nobr'>a\nmountain,<\/span> it turns out that it eventually just petered out into nothing\n(where &#8220;nothing&#8221; is defined as &#8220;dense, unpenetrable mountain forest&#8221;).<\/p>\n\n<p>But before retreating all the way, <span class='nobr'>I stopped<\/span> to take <span class='nobr'>a picture<\/span> of <span class='nobr'>a huge<\/span>\nfern. <span class='nobr'>I should<\/span> have taken something to show the scale, but the width of the\nwhole thing, seen in the middle picture, was probably about five\nfeet...<\/p>\n\n\n<div class='ic'><a name=\"016051\" href=\"\/i\/JF7_016051.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_016051_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\"\nalt=\"Ishigaki, Okinawa, Japan -- Copyright 2009 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i016051\"\ntitle=\"Ishigaki, Okinawa, Japan -- Copyright 2009 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 36 mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>125 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/3.2, ISO 200 &mdash;\n<a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF7_016051.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF7_016051.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name=\"016050\" href=\"\/i\/JF7_016050.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_016050_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\"\nalt=\"Ishigaki, Okinawa, Japan -- Copyright 2009 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i016050\"\ntitle=\"Ishigaki, Okinawa, Japan -- Copyright 2009 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 24 mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>200 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/3.2, ISO 200 &mdash;\n<a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF7_016050.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF7_016050.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class='ic'><a name=\"016047\" href=\"\/i\/JF7_016047.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_016047_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\"\nalt=\"Ishigaki, Okinawa, Japan -- Copyright 2009 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i016047\"\ntitle=\"Ishigaki, Okinawa, Japan -- Copyright 2009 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f\/2.8 @ 70 mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>160 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/3.5, ISO 200 &mdash;\n<a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF7_016047.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF7_016047.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>It's hard to get a pretty picture of <span class='nobr'>a fern,<\/span> but that doesn't stop me <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/2007-07-07\/512\" class='quiet'>from trying<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><i><a href=\"\/blog\/2009-05-15\/1209\" class='quiet'>Continued here...<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the first day of our trip to Ishigaki Island (southern Japan), between our arrival and stopping for the sunset, we drove around on the island a bit. Driving on a pretty rough road that I thought took us to the top of a mountain, it turns out that it eventually just petered out into nothing (where \"nothing\" is defined as \"dense, unpenetrable mountain forest\").<\/p> <p>But before retreating all the way, I stopped to take a picture of a huge fern. 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