{"id":978,"date":"2011-10-21T15:17:35","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T20:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/?p=978"},"modified":"2014-08-21T12:46:41","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T17:46:41","slug":"the-flowers-of-yamasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/?p=978","title":{"rendered":"The Flowers of Yamasa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I&#8217;m done with the sky.<\/p>\n<p>For the last couple of days, I&#8217;ve been taking pictures of flowers, to see how the macro function works on the IXY. It&#8217;s pretty good. Not stunningly great, but better than a cell phone camera, and that&#8217;s all I can hope for.<\/p>\n<p>So behold, the shy, dainty flowers of Yamasa. (Okay, some of them are weeds, but the still looked interesting to me, and it was something to do in-between classes!)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Flowers at Yamasa by richfowler, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/richfowler\/8688144893\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7046\/8688144893_706d6880a7_z.jpg\" alt=\"Flowers at Yamasa\" width=\"640\" height=\"481\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I like the detail on the left flower. The right flower is out of focus. A weak point of the IXY&#8217;s macro mode.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Flowers at Yamasa 2 by richfowler, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/richfowler\/8688145795\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7051\/8688145795_8dfbe851b7_z.jpg\" alt=\"Flowers at Yamasa 2\" width=\"640\" height=\"481\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a little head-on and bulls&#8217;-eyed, but I liked this flower. The IXY did a decent job, considering I was hand-holding the camera.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Flowers at Yamasa 3 by richfowler, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/richfowler\/8688146639\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7050\/8688146639_bb74f3933e_z.jpg\" alt=\"Flowers at Yamasa 3\" width=\"640\" height=\"481\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Flowers at Yamasa 4 by richfowler, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/richfowler\/8688147539\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7044\/8688147539_f113d50b47_z.jpg\" alt=\"Flowers at Yamasa 4\" width=\"640\" height=\"481\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The IXY did a good job with this weed\/plant, too.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Flowers at Yamasa 5 by richfowler, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/richfowler\/8689266614\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7050\/8689266614_630e85a226_z.jpg\" alt=\"Flowers at Yamasa 5\" width=\"481\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Flowers at Yamasa 6 by richfowler, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/richfowler\/8688148825\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7056\/8688148825_6949bf4090_z.jpg\" alt=\"Flowers at Yamasa 6\" width=\"481\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And finally, a shot of the South Okazaki Hospital sign\/top floor, with lots of power lines in the way:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"South Okazaki Hospital Sign From Yamasa by richfowler, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/richfowler\/8688143511\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7054\/8688143511_eb43a2d65f_z.jpg\" alt=\"South Okazaki Hospital Sign From Yamasa\" width=\"640\" height=\"481\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next up is a story about my trip to Nagoya Castle. Good times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In breaks between classes, I&#8217;ve been trying out the macro function of the IXY on the flowers surrounding Yamasa. (Okay, some are weeds.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,75,823,5],"tags":[548,546,547,894,828,100,898,106],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan-trip","category-photography","category-photos","category-travel","tag-canon-ixy","tag-clouds","tag-flowers","tag-japan-trip","tag-japan2011","tag-okazaki","tag-photography","tag-yamasa","category-3-id","category-75-id","category-823-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1501,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions\/1501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stupidamericantourist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}