{"id":32325,"date":"2018-06-11T10:01:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T14:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=32325"},"modified":"2018-06-11T10:01:49","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T14:01:49","slug":"macro-monday-is-now-zoom-lens-monday-to-hell-with-your-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2018\/06\/11\/macro-monday-is-now-zoom-lens-monday-to-hell-with-your-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Macro Monday Is Now Zoom Lens Monday, To Hell With Your Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I got a new lens!<\/p>\n

Er, for my camera, not like, some kind of cyborg shit for my eyeball. Thought that would be cool? Anyway. I’m talking about the Canon 100-400mm<\/strong><\/span><\/a> mk II (with IS!) zoom lens. Which lets me capture shots like that one above — a chipmunk, notoriously hard to capture because they’re basically tiny woodland ninjas, now easy to capture thanks to the lens. I intend to use it for birding, mostly, because I guess I turned into an old man? (The other day I spent a half-hour tracking a scarlet tanager through the woods. I saw it but failed to get off a snap, so that’s how I wasted my day.)<\/p>\n

If you’d still rather macros —<\/p>\n

Well, here is a picture of a jumping spider<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. It’s behind the cut because spider, but I really encourage you to look at it if only for\u00a0those giant green fangs<\/em>. Also here’s a mantis eating an ant — an ant I literally threw to the mantis\u00a0and it caught<\/em> because mantids are fucking rad —<\/p>\n

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And here’s an even more up-close-and-personal look at the ring-necked snake that lives by our cellar door — at a casual glance without the camera, the snake is a dull gray color. But with macro and flash, man, it’s like a Chromatic Dragon. Look at those blues! Really beautiful animal.<\/p>\n

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YAY BUGS AND SNAKES AND SPIDERS.<\/p>\n

THE THINGS I AM MADE OF.<\/p>\n

Whatever. Let’s see. What else is happening?<\/p>\n

Well, the world is still falling to shit, so that’s great. Net neutrality is gone, Trump diarrheaed over all our allies while simultaneously fawning over Putin and giving a handjob to North Korea, so we’re in really great shape on the world stage and America totally hasn’t become a shitty-pantsed embarassment in a very short time, ha ha ha, oh good.<\/p>\n

International House of Pancakes is now International House of Branding Fuckery, oh, I’m sorry, I mean, the B stands for Burgers, I guess?<\/p>\n

Everything is deeply stupid, so read books, because they are a temporary escape from the\u00a0pure liquid nonsense<\/em> raining from the sky.<\/p>\n

In that vein, I note that\u00a0Zer0es<\/strong> is still $1.99 — for your Kindle<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, on B&N<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, on Kobo<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, even iBooks<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. Hackers plus surveillance plus body horror thriller.<\/p>\n

Also, audio books for\u00a0The Raptor & The Wren<\/strong>\u00a0(Emily Beresford narrating, out July 3rd, preorder now<\/strong><\/span><\/a>) and\u00a0Damn Fine Story<\/strong> are incoming (date: tba).<\/p>\n

And I think that’s it for today.<\/p>\n

Be good, humans, because our goodness is all we have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got a new lens! Er, for my camera, not like, some kind of cyborg shit for my eyeball. Thought that would be cool? Anyway. I’m talking about the Canon 100-400mm mk II (with IS!) zoom lens. Which lets me capture shots like that one above — a chipmunk, notoriously hard to capture because they’re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-32325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-8pn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32325"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32330,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32325\/revisions\/32330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}