{"id":245,"date":"2010-09-01T14:00:54","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T21:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=245"},"modified":"2017-07-23T10:34:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T14:34:58","slug":"dc-photography-mckee-beshers-wildlife-management-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=245","title":{"rendered":"McKee-Beshers Wildlife Management Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_241\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-241\" style=\"width: 389px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Sunflower-dew-drop.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-241 \" title=\"Sunflower dew drop\" src=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Sunflower-dew-drop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"389\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Sunflower-dew-drop.jpg 648w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Sunflower-dew-drop-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-241\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunflower Dew Drop, McKee-Bashers Wildlife Management Area, Montgomery County, Maryland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Every year the state of Maryland plants several acres worth of sunflowers at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnr.state.md.us\/publiclands\/central\/mb.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">McKee-Beshers Wildlife Management Area<\/a>. \u00a0The sunflowers usually reach their peak bloom in mid-July. \u00a0Just to be sure, I usually start checking on them the last week in June.<\/p>\n<p>While landscape images of the sunflower blooms can be quite spectacular, there are also great macro images to be had. \u00a0Note the dew drop in the image above. \u00a0That drop acts like a lens, reflecting the sunflowers behind this one bloom. \u00a0In essence, the dew drop presents a macro image of a landscape!<\/p>\n<p>I did not use a macro lens here. \u00a0I used my standard 18-200mm lens zoomed in to 200mm. \u00a0I set my tripod so that the lens was just beyond it&#8217;s minimum focusing distance while focused on the dew drop (a focusing rail would have been most helpful!). \u00a0The image, exposed for 0.5 seconds at f\/36, has a shallow depth of field because of the very short camera to subject distance. \u00a0I think the micro image of the sunflower field captured by the dew drop adds a subtle detail that draws the viewers eye, especially after they realize what it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year the state of Maryland plants several acres worth of sunflowers at the McKee-Beshers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[549],"tags":[102,101,309],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maryland","tag-girasole","tag-mckee-beshers","tag-sunflower"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2142,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/2142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}