{"id":1769,"date":"2011-01-02T18:02:13","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T18:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/?p=1769"},"modified":"2014-08-07T15:08:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T15:08:19","slug":"photo-of-the-week-140-small-copper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/2011\/01\/02\/photo-of-the-week-140-small-copper\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo of the Week 151 &#8211; Small Copper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following on form my recent retrospective on 2010 I thought I&#8217;d choose a shot for this week&#8217;s Photo of the Week that JUST missed out being included in that retrospective. 2010 was the first year that I managed to get some good shots of the Small Copper butterfly (Lycaena phlaeas) in Ireland. I had gotten a few shots of the species before, but in Belgium rather than Ireland. Obviously I&#8217;m delighted to have found a colony of Small Coppers along the Royal Canal, but I&#8217;m also really happy with the nice warm evening light I shot this in, and the nice dark un-cluttered background.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DSC_7334.jpg\" alt=\"Small Copper Butterfly\" style=\"border-width:0px;\" width=\"450\" height=\"360\" \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bbusschots\/4946709382\/in\/set-72157604207472927\/\" target=\"_blank\">on Flickr<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bbusschots\/4946709382\/in\/set-72157604207472927\/\" target=\"_blank\">Full-Size<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Camera:<\/strong> Nikon D40<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lens:<\/strong> Nikon DX AFS 55-200mm<\/li>\n<li><strong>Exposure:<\/strong> 1\/1000 sec<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focal Length:<\/strong> 200mm<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focal Ratio:<\/strong> <em>f<\/em>\/8<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISO:<\/strong> 400<\/li>\n<li><strong>Camera Mode:<\/strong> Aperture Priority<\/li>\n<li><strong>Exposure Bias:<\/strong> -1.0ev<\/li>\n<li><strong>Processing:<\/strong> tweaked slightly with Aperture&#8217;s built-in Dodge &#038; Burn plugin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on form my recent retrospective on 2010 I thought I&#8217;d choose a shot for this week&#8217;s Photo of the Week that JUST missed out being included in that retrospective. 2010 was the first year that I managed to get some good shots of the Small Copper butterfly (Lycaena phlaeas) in Ireland. I had gotten [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[517,31,35,167,229,28],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-butterfly","tag-ireland","tag-kildare","tag-leixlip","tag-macro","tag-photo-of-the-week"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t9xK-sx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769","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=1769"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8040,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions\/8040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1769"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}