{"id":15961,"date":"2015-07-02T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T11:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=15961"},"modified":"2015-06-21T16:55:40","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T02:55:40","slug":"gecko-plumeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=15961","title":{"rendered":"Gecko &#038; Plumeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This little guy was not afraid of me in the least.  Indeed he had no problem hopping on and off my fingers as I sought to pose him on the flower.  It was a warm afternoon and he was quite active, more interested in the ants on the flowers than in sitting still for a portrait.<\/p>\n<p>Shot with an old Canon 100 f\/2.8 FD lens (manual focus) and a 25mm extension tube on the Canon EOS-M camera.  I got the focus right by simply rocking back and forth through focus while rapidly taking images in servo.  This was not with the focus ring, but simply leaning back and forward slowly.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15962\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15962\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=15962\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15962\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/CH37-60-15172-DC.jpg\" alt=\"Gecko and Plumaria\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15962\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15962\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A gold dust day gecko (Phelsuma laticauda) on a plumeria blossom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This little guy was not afraid of me in the least. Indeed he had no problem hopping on and off my fingers as I sought to pose him on the flower. It was a warm afternoon and he was quite active, more interested in the ants on the flowers than in sitting still for a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=15961\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gecko &#038; Plumeria&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[182,377],"tags":[513,1504,1228],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15961"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15965,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15961\/revisions\/15965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}