{"id":1209,"date":"2008-12-21T18:12:25","date_gmt":"2008-12-21T18:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2014-08-07T20:03:12","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T20:03:12","slug":"photo-of-the-week-44-amphibious-bistort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/2008\/12\/21\/photo-of-the-week-44-amphibious-bistort\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo of the Week 44 &#8211; Amphibious Bistort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not even sure this is a good photo technically, I think the depth of field is actually too shallow, but I&#8217;ve always liked the composition and the green of the bokeh, so I&#8217;m counting it as one of my best regardless.<\/p>\n<p>The flower is a somewhat strange one that grows on both land and water, hence it&#8217;s name, Amphibious Bistort (Persicaria amphibia). I really like it&#8217;s spikes of pinky-white flowers, and it&#8217;s very common in Cavan where we have no shortage of either wet soil or water for it to thrive in!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dsc-1161.jpg\" alt=\"Amphibious Bistort (Persicaria amphibia)\" style=\"border-width:0px;\" width=\"464\" height=\"342\" \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bbusschots\/3125012497\/\" target=\"_blank\">on Flickr<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bbusschots\/3125012497\/sizes\/o\/\" target=\"_blank\">Full-Size<\/a><\/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\/500 sec<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focal Length:<\/strong> 55mm<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focal Ratio:<\/strong> F8<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISO:<\/strong> 200<\/li>\n<li><strong>Camera Mode:<\/strong> Auto<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not even sure this is a good photo technically, I think the depth of field is actually too shallow, but I&#8217;ve always liked the composition and the green of the bokeh, so I&#8217;m counting it as one of my best regardless. The flower is a somewhat strange one that grows on both land and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":"","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}},"categories":[22],"tags":[100,31,229,28,99,98],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-green","tag-ireland","tag-macro","tag-photo-of-the-week","tag-pink","tag-wild-flower"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t9xK-jv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","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=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1210,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions\/1210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}