{"id":1446,"date":"2010-02-05T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T23:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2010-02-05\/1446"},"modified":"2010-02-05T08:00:05","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T23:00:05","slug":"stone-sphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2010-02-05\/1446","title":{"rendered":"Stone Sphere"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class='resize_warning' id='arw1446'>\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=\"027844\" href=\"\/i\/JF7_027844.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF7_027844_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\"\nalt=\"desktop background image of a stone sphere, tucked away haphazzardly under the legs of a stone lantern, in the back gardens of the Nishimura Stone Lantern stonecarving shop, Kyoto Japan -- Sphere -- Nishimura Stone Lantern workworkshopshop and garden -- Copyright 2009 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i027844\"\nphotostream=\"japan\"\ntitle=\"desktop background image of a stone sphere, tucked away haphazzardly under the legs of a stone lantern, in the back gardens of the Nishimura Stone Lantern stonecarving shop, Kyoto Japan -- Sphere -- Nishimura Stone Lantern workworkshopshop and garden -- Copyright 2009 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D700 + Zeiss 100mm f\/2 &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>80 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/2.8, ISO 1100 &mdash;\n<a href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF7_027844.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF7_027844.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Sphere<\/span>\n\n<div class='dbg' id='x232938' style='margin-top:20px'\nonmouseover='document.getElementById(\"x232938\").style.color=\"red\"; this.style.borderColor=\"red\"'\nonmouseout= 'document.getElementById(\"x232938\").style.color=\"inherit\"; this.style.borderColor=\"\"'><b>Desktop-Background Versions<\/b>\n<br\/>\n<span style='margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; opacity:.6; filter:alpha(opacity=60);'>\n<span style='white-space:nowrap'>Standard: <small><a class='quiet'\nhref=\"\/i\/JF7_027844_1024x768.jpg\" title=\"1024 x 768 desktop background image of a stone sphere, tucked away haphazzardly under the legs of a stone lantern, in the back gardens of the Nishimura Stone Lantern stonecarving shop, Kyoto Japan\">1024<span style='margin:0 0.1em'>&times;<\/span>768<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a class='quiet'\nhref=\"\/i\/JF7_027844_1440x1080.jpg\" title=\"1440 x 1080 desktop background image of a stone sphere, tucked away haphazzardly under the legs of a stone lantern, in the back gardens of the Nishimura Stone Lantern stonecarving shop, Kyoto Japan\">1440<span style='margin:0 0.1em'>&times;<\/span>1080<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a class='quiet'\nhref=\"\/i\/JF7_027844_1600x1200.jpg\" title=\"1600 x 1200 desktop background image of a stone sphere, tucked away haphazzardly under the legs of a stone lantern, in the back gardens of the Nishimura Stone Lantern stonecarving shop, Kyoto Japan\">1600<span style='margin:0 0.1em'>&times;<\/span>1200<\/a><\/small>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>\n<span style='white-space:nowrap'>Widescreen:&nbsp;&nbsp;<small><a class='quiet'\nhref=\"\/i\/JF7_027844_1280x800.jpg\" title=\"1280 x 800 desktop background image of a stone sphere, tucked away haphazzardly under the legs of a stone lantern, in the back gardens of the Nishimura Stone Lantern stonecarving shop, Kyoto Japan\">1280<span style='margin:0 0.1em'>&times;<\/span>800<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a class='quiet'\nhref=\"\/i\/JF7_027844_1680x1050.jpg\" title=\"1680 x 1050 desktop background image of a stone sphere, tucked away haphazzardly under the legs of a stone lantern, in the back gardens of the Nishimura Stone Lantern stonecarving shop, Kyoto Japan\">1680<span style='margin:0 0.1em'>&times;<\/span>1050<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a class='quiet'\nhref=\"\/i\/JF7_027844_2560x1600.jpg\" title=\"2560 x 1600 desktop background image of a stone sphere, tucked away haphazzardly under the legs of a stone lantern, in the back gardens of the Nishimura Stone Lantern stonecarving shop, Kyoto Japan\">2560<span style='margin:0 0.1em'>&times;<\/span>1600<\/a><\/small><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>It's been <a href=\"\/blog\/2009-12-30\/1411\"><span class='nobr'>a while<\/span><\/a>\nsince we've seen anything from <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/2009-12-10\/1392\">Nishimura Stone Lantern\nstone-carving shop<\/a>, so here's <span class='nobr'>a close<\/span> up of <span class='nobr'>a stone<\/span> sphere, tucked away\nhaphazardly under the legs of <span class='nobr'>a large<\/span> stone lantern. (The combination is\nvisible toward the bottom of <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/2009-12-10\/1392#027683\">this wider\nview<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n<p>As I mentioned in &#8220;<a href=\"\/blog\/2010-02-03\/1445\"\nclass='pt'>Deceptively Clear: Snow-Covered Mountains in Exquisite\nDetail<\/a>&#8221;, <span class='nobr'>I prefer<\/span> <span class='nobr'>a darker<\/span> tone to the image <span class='nobr'>I use<\/span> for my desktop\nbackground, so I'll give this one <span class='nobr'>a try<\/span> for <span class='nobr'>a while.<\/span> I've accumulated quite\n<span class='nobr'>a number<\/span> of them on my blog over the years, as evidenced by my pretty <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/photostream\/bg_s.html\">Desktop Background\nPhotostream<\/a>, and the more workhorse view, my blog's <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/category\/pretty-photos\/desktop-backgrounds\">Desktop-Background\nCategory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It's been a while since we've seen anything from Nishimura Stone Lantern stone-carving shop, so here's a close up of a stone sphere, tucked away haphazardly under the legs of a large stone lantern. (The combination is visible toward the bottom of this wider view.)<\/p> <p>As I mentioned in \"Deceptively Clear: Snow-Covered Mountains in Exquisite Detail\", I prefer a darker tone to the image I use for my desktop background, so I'll give this one a try for a while. I've accumulated quite a number of them on my blog over the years, as evidenced by my pretty Desktop Background [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2,23,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446"}],"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=1446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}