{"id":19100,"date":"2020-06-17T15:18:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T20:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19100"},"modified":"2020-06-23T17:19:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T22:19:05","slug":"syrphid-fly-on-marigold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19100","title":{"rendered":"Syrphid Fly on Marigold"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19102\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/img_20200617_176521.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19102\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/img_20200617_176521-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Syrphid Fly on Marigold\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/img_20200617_176521-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/img_20200617_176521-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/img_20200617_176521-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/img_20200617_176521-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/img_20200617_176521.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19102\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Syrphid Fly on Marigold<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I went out to take some pictures of flowers today. There are a few sitting on a table that I set up for Cathy to work on and that seemed like a nice place to sit and take pictures. I took some of a coral bells plant (<em>Heuchera<\/em> x &#x2018;Blondie&#x2019;) and then I noticed this syrphid file (Family Syrphidae) on a marigold blossom. There&#8217;s only so close I can get with my 100mm macro and I&#8217;d like some way to get closer. I&#8217;ve thought about buying a Canon MP-E 65mm f\/2.8 lens that gives magnifications of 1 to 5 times, basically picking up where my current lens leaves off. It&#8217;s manual focus, but at that close range, focus is as much a matter of moving the camera closer or further away from the subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went out to take some pictures of flowers today. There are a few sitting on a table that I set up for Cathy to work on and that seemed like a nice place to sit and take pictures. I took some of a coral bells plant (Heuchera x &#x2018;Blondie&#x2019;) and then I noticed this &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19100\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3],"tags":[1230,1229,73,1677,2383,58,2460],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19103,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19100\/revisions\/19103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}