{"id":1211,"date":"2009-05-17T22:28:20","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T13:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2009-05-17\/1211"},"modified":"2009-05-17T22:28:20","modified_gmt":"2009-05-17T13:28:20","slug":"life-is-tenacious-tiny-ocean-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2009-05-17\/1211","title":{"rendered":"Life is Tenacious: Tiny Ocean Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class='resize_warning' id='arw1211'>\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<div class='ic'><a name=\"016368\" href=\"\/i\/JF7_016368.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_016368_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\"\nalt=\"Life is Tenacious -- Ishigaki, Okinawa, Japan -- Copyright 2009 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i016368\"\ntitle=\"Life is Tenacious -- 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 @ 60 mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>500 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/7.1, ISO 800 &mdash;\n<a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF7_016368.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF7_016368.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Life is Tenacious<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The whole &#8220;plant growing in the middle of nothingness&#8221; thing has been\nwell and truly done, <a href=\"\/blog\/2007-01-09\/327#024574\"\nclass='quiet'>including by me<\/a>, but the picture above, of <span class='nobr'>a plant<\/span>\ngrowing on barren rocks, takes on <span class='nobr'>a bit<\/span> more drama when you take into\naccount its location...<\/p>\n\n\n<div class='ic tight'>\n\n<iframe width=\"690\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"\nmarginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;q=24.550018,124.292023&amp;t=k&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=24.550018,124.292023&amp;spn=0.002537,0.006845&amp;z=18&amp;iwloc=A&amp;output=embed\"><\/iframe><br\n\/><small><a class='quiet'\nhref=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;q=24.550018,124.292023&amp;t=k&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=24.558834,124.296227&amp;spn=0.002537,0.006845&amp;z=14&amp;iwloc=A&amp;source=embed\"\nstyle=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<p>If the embedded Google Map is working properly, it's showing <span class='nobr'>a location<\/span>\nin the ocean <span class='nobr'>a hundred<\/span> yards from shore.<\/p>\n\n<p>This was from the second day of <a href=\"\/blog\/2009-05-07\/1204\" class='quiet'>our trip to Ishigaki Island<\/a> in the far south of Japan.<\/p>\n\n<p>The picture above was one of the last <span class='nobr'>I took<\/span> before\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2008-06-30\/852\" class='quiet'>my polarization filter<\/a>\ninexplicably<sup>*<\/sup> fell off my camera and into the East China Sea.<\/p>\n\n<p>More in the next post.<\/p>\n\n<div style='float:right; size:small'><i><sup>*<\/sup> for definitions of &#8220;inexplicably&#8221; meaning &#8220;<span class='nobr'>I wasn't<\/span> paying enough attention&#8221;.<\/i><\/div>\n<br clear='all'\/>\n\n<p><i><a href=\"\/blog\/2009-05-18\/1212\" class='quiet'>Continued here...<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The whole \"plant growing in the middle of nothingness\" thing has been well and truly done, including by me, but the picture above, of a plant growing on barren rocks, takes on a bit more drama when you take into account its location...<\/p> <p>If the embedded Google Map is working properly, it's showing a location in the ocean a hundred yards from shore.<\/p> <p>This was from the second day of our trip to Ishigaki Island in the far south of Japan.<\/p> <p>The picture above was one of the last I took before my polarization filter inexplicably* fell off my camera [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}