{"id":5064,"date":"2013-06-17T10:33:53","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T14:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/?p=5064"},"modified":"2020-08-13T19:35:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T23:35:14","slug":"daddy-longlegs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/daddy-longlegs\/","title":{"rendered":"Daddy Longlegs"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am in-love with my macro lens.<\/p>\n

This is where the biology teacher in me tries to re-emerge. \u00a0There was so much I did not like about teaching biology but there is still that little girl, junior naturalist hidden inside of me that initially led me toward a major in biology that really, really loves being out in nature. \u00a0I love watching animals and their behavior – just sitting and observing them. \u00a0I love to see them and discover things I didn’t see before.<\/p>\n

This macro lens is enabling me to see things I really can not easily see with my eye and to discover details I never would have otherwise seen.<\/p>\n

For instance – last night I was taking pictures of whatever flowers and insects I could find in my mother-in-law’s back yard while the kids played in the pool. \u00a0I came across this daddy longlegs and started to snap a few quick pictures.<\/p>\n

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After looking through the viewfinder I noticed these tiny white appendages. \u00a0After a lifetime of playing with Daddy Longlegs on camping trips as a child I never, ever have noticed these little white pedipalps. \u00a0Suddenly I was fascinated. \u00a0Then I got home and uploaded the photos to the computer and noticed that I could see an eye. \u00a0Amazing. \u00a0Here’s a close crop so you can take a peek too!<\/p>\n

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You know… when I started my first Project 365 back in 2009 what initially drew me into photography was noticing the details around me in a way I never had before. \u00a0Over the past few years I felt like that had sort of stalled and I was simply taking portraits or snapshots and not really learning anything new. \u00a0With this new lens I have suddenly encountered a new feeling of discovery. \u00a0I’m learning something new about photography every time I use it and learning something new about the details of the world around me. \u00a0Totally fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am in-love with my macro lens. This is where the biology teacher in me tries to re-emerge. \u00a0There was so much I did not like about teaching biology but there is still that little girl, junior naturalist hidden inside of me that initially led me toward a major in biology that really, really loves […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,922,923,11,448,371],"tags":[1199,693,293,1215,694,692],"class_list":["post-5064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-in-the-garden","category-insects-in-the-garden","category-nature","category-photo-of-the-day","category-photo-share","tag-arachnids-2","tag-daddy-longlegs","tag-macro","tag-nature","tag-pedipalps","tag-spiders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5064"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6999,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5064\/revisions\/6999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}