{"id":2097,"date":"2012-09-22T23:46:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T14:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2012-09-22\/2097"},"modified":"2012-09-22T23:46:49","modified_gmt":"2012-09-22T14:46:49","slug":"flowers-for-a-job-well-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2012-09-22\/2097","title":{"rendered":"Flowers for a Job Well Done"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class='resize_warning' id='arw2097'>\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=\"004188\" href='\/i\/JF4_004188.jpg'\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF4_004188_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\"\nalt=\"Forest of Flowers  --  \u8a18\u5ff5\u6587\u5316\u4f1a\u9928  --  Nagaokakyo, Kyoto, Japan  --  Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i004188\"\ntitle=\"Forest of Flowers  --  \u8a18\u5ff5\u6587\u5316\u4f1a\u9928  --  Nagaokakyo, Kyoto, Japan  --  Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D4 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>800 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 100 &mdash;\n<a href='\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF4_004188.jpg'>map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href='\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF4_004188.jpg'>nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Forest of Flowers<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Fumie had a ballet recital today that she'd been preparing for the\nlast five months. Of course, she gets <span class='nobr'>a bouquet<\/span> of flowers for her efforts;\n<span class='nobr'>I always<\/span> get them at the flower shop just inside <a\nhref='http:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/QUkmj'>here<\/a>; <span class='nobr'>I describe<\/span> to the guy what she's\nwearing\/dancing, and he comes up with <span class='nobr'>a perfect<\/span> bouquet.<\/p>\n\n<p>Taking pictures of flowers in <span class='nobr'>a bouquet<\/span> is even less challenging than\nphotographing animals in <span class='nobr'>a zoo,<\/span> but it was <span class='nobr'>a nice<\/span> bouquet so <span class='nobr'>I went<\/span> ahead\nand shot <span class='nobr'>a few.<\/span> <span class='nobr'>The sunlight<\/span> was harsh, so for the closeups <span class='nobr'>I made<\/span> some shade...<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name=\"004197\" href='\/i\/JF4_004197.jpg'\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF4_004197_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\"\nalt=\"\u8a18\u5ff5\u6587\u5316\u4f1a\u9928  --  Nagaokakyo, Kyoto, Japan  --  Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i004197\"\ntitle=\"\u8a18\u5ff5\u6587\u5316\u4f1a\u9928  --  Nagaokakyo, Kyoto, Japan  --  Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D4 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>640 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/4, ISO 1600 &mdash;\n<a href='\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF4_004197.jpg'>map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href='\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF4_004197.jpg'>nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name=\"004203\" href='\/i\/JF4_004203.jpg'\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF4_004203_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\"\nalt=\"\u8a18\u5ff5\u6587\u5316\u4f1a\u9928  --  Nagaokakyo, Kyoto, Japan  --  Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i004203\"\ntitle=\"\u8a18\u5ff5\u6587\u5316\u4f1a\u9928  --  Nagaokakyo, Kyoto, Japan  --  Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D4 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>640 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 720 &mdash;\n<a href='\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF4_004203.jpg'>map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href='\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF4_004203.jpg'>nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Of course, if it's <a href='\/blog\/2007-10-14\/606'>not\nin frame, it doesn't exist<\/a>, so <span class='nobr'>I could<\/span> take the photos while it was\nsitting in the trunk of the car...<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name=\"004195\" href='\/i\/JF4_004195.jpg'\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JF4_004195_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\"\nalt=\"\u8a18\u5ff5\u6587\u5316\u4f1a\u9928  --  Nagaokakyo, Kyoto, Japan  --  Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i004195\"\ntitle=\"\u8a18\u5ff5\u6587\u5316\u4f1a\u9928  --  Nagaokakyo, Kyoto, Japan  --  Copyright 2012 Jeffrey Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D4 + Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5 &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>640 sec, <span class='f'>f<\/span>\/2.5, ISO 320 &mdash;\n<a href='\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJF4_004195.jpg'>map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href='\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JF4_004195.jpg'>nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>As tired as I am from a long day, <span class='nobr'>I can only<\/span> imagine how tired Fumie must be. <span class='nobr'>She danced<\/span> beautifully <span class='nobr'>a choreography<\/span> that just <span class='nobr'>a few<\/span> months\nwas technically impossible for her; she certainly earned her bouquet today.<\/p>\n\n<p>We celebrated with dinner and drinks at the always-tasty <a href='http:\/\/www.togiya-dining.com\/'>Togiya<\/a> near Ooike\/Kiyamachi.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fumie had a ballet recital today that she'd been preparing for the last five months. Of course, she gets a bouquet of flowers for her efforts; I always get them at the flower shop just inside here; I describe to the guy what she's wearing\/dancing, and he comes up with a perfect bouquet.<\/p> <p>Taking pictures of flowers in a bouquet is even less challenging than photographing animals in a zoo, but it was a nice bouquet so I went ahead and shot a few. The sunlight was harsh, so for the closeups I made some shade...<\/p> <p>Of course, if it's [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097"}],"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=2097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}