{"id":6839,"date":"2013-05-28T22:24:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T14:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tvsmith.my\/?p=6839"},"modified":"2013-05-29T09:46:27","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T01:46:27","slug":"dragonflies-in-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/dragonflies-in-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragonflies In Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you thought photographing birds in flight is tough, wait until you chase a dragonfly with a tele lens. They are about an inch-and-a-half long and zig-zag at random. When they are in love, we are entertained to a Bollywood movie-like dance at the speed of light.<\/p>\n<p>Over a romantic sunset, the couple darted around blades of grass, hovered above water and finally gazed into each other&#8217;s eyes, mid-air. That was when I shouted: &#8220;Cut! Good take!&#8221; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Olympus OM-D, ISO 1600, f5.6, 1\/4000 sec.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/dragonflies_in_love.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6840\" title=\"Dragonflies In Love\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/dragonflies_in_love.jpg\" alt=\"Dragonflies In Love\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/dragonflies_in_love.jpg 1080w, http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/dragonflies_in_love-113x113.jpg 113w, http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/dragonflies_in_love-169x169.jpg 169w, http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/dragonflies_in_love-450x450.jpg 450w, http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/dragonflies_in_love-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you thought photographing birds in flight is tough, wait until you chase a dragonfly&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/dragonflies-in-love\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,563,8,519,9],"tags":[1510,924,550,367,114,511,303,197],"class_list":["post-6839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geography","category-instagram","category-life","category-omd","category-photography","tag-dragonflies","tag-dragonfly","tag-flight","tag-insects","tag-olympus","tag-om-d","tag-petronas-twin-towers","tag-sunset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6839"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6845,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6839\/revisions\/6845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}