{"id":34,"date":"2023-12-15T12:52:08","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T12:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beelover.net\/?page_id=34"},"modified":"2024-05-25T06:21:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T06:21:18","slug":"2020-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.beelover.net\/?page_id=34","title":{"rendered":"2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Lockdown Era<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s some of the photos taken in 2020, the year of the Covid-19 pandemic and global lockdown. Thankfully I have a backyard to escape to. Here\u2019s what I said for an article about doing photography in 2020 on TheLovepost<\/a> :<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The lockdown initially slowed down my photography activities but that did not last long. While I couldn\u2019t go out and about on the streets, I found an amazing, colourful world that I hadn\u2019t noticed before right in my backyard.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I started to notice and observe more solitary bees visiting the plants. The best part was probably seeing (and photographing) the teddy bear and neon cuckoo bee for the first time!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then there were the other smaller ones like the Hylaeus (masked bee) and Lasioglossum (Homalictus). Furthermore, I discovered a couple of new spots around the house for my bee-spotting activities and started to arrange the plants to make it easier for me to photograph the bees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020 was also the year that I started to experiment with the $10 vintage flash from Salvos. It was really difficult to use but certainly got me more interested to experiment with lighting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Lockdown Era Here\u2019s some of the photos taken in 2020, the year of the Covid-19 pandemic and global lockdown. Thankfully I have a backyard to escape to. Here\u2019s what I said for an article about doing photography in 2020 on TheLovepost : The lockdown initially slowed down my photography activities but that did not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":27,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beelover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beelover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beelover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beelover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beelover.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beelover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105,"href":"https:\/\/www.beelover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions\/105"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beelover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beelover.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}