{"id":1135,"date":"2008-10-27T15:49:16","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T15:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/?p=1135"},"modified":"2014-08-07T20:05:29","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T20:05:29","slug":"photo-of-the-week-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/2008\/10\/27\/photo-of-the-week-36\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo of the Week 36"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really have no idea why but since I was a young kid this tiny little flower fascinated me. It just seemed too pretty to be genuinely natural and I always thought they mush have just escaped from someone&#8217;s garden or something. However, the Common Dog-violet (Viola Riviniana) is a native Irish wild flower. These things are very small, and only really stand a chance in areas where grass won&#8217;t over-whelm them. As such they tend to very well in hedgerows and woods. I love this shot because it shows up both the wonderful colour and subtle details of these diminutive beauties.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/2525159623-67b648cbfb-o.jpg\" alt=\"The Common Dog-violet (Viola Riviniana)\" style=\"border-width:0px;\" width=\"325\" height=\"464\" \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bbusschots\/2525159623\/\" target=\"_blank\">on Flickr<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bbusschots\/2525159623\/sizes\/o\/\" target=\"_blank\">Full Size<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For those of you interested in such things, here are the technical details of this shot:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Camera:<\/strong> Nikon D40<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lens:<\/strong> Nikon DX AFS 18-55mm (D40 kit lens)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Exposure:<\/strong> 1\/320 sec<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focal Length:<\/strong> 55mm<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focal Ratio:<\/strong> F5.6<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISO:<\/strong> 400<\/li>\n<li><strong>Camera Mode:<\/strong> Aperture Priority<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really have no idea why but since I was a young kid this tiny little flower fascinated me. It just seemed too pretty to be genuinely natural and I always thought they mush have just escaped from someone&#8217;s garden or something. However, the Common Dog-violet (Viola Riviniana) is a native Irish wild flower. These [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[57,31,28],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-flower","tag-ireland","tag-photo-of-the-week"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t9xK-ij","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1136,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions\/1136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}