{"id":36,"date":"2023-12-15T12:54:25","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T12:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beelover.net\/?page_id=36"},"modified":"2024-05-25T06:33:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T06:33:09","slug":"2021-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.beelover.net\/?page_id=36","title":{"rendered":"2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

New Discovery<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

2021 was the year when things slowly click together – photography wise that is. I got more comfortable with the gear and started to experiment with getting more than 1:1 magnification using the Raynox DCR-250 & reverse lens technique. I also experimented a lot with flash and diffuser. Lots of hit and misses but there were many a-ha<\/em> moments!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were a couple of highlights for the year. For the first time, I finally get to photograph male Amegilla sp. roosting at night. I also discovered a nesting site for the Lasioglossum (Homalictus) sp. next to the house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gear wise, the used Nikon D7200 became my new best friend when the Nikon D5200 stopped working. I also learned how to use Lightroom for making minor adjustments and enhancements to the raw image. Lastly, I had to bid farewell to the broken Tamron 90mm f\/2.8 and replaced it with the manual focus Micro-Nikkor 105mm f\/4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New Discovery 2021 was the year when things slowly click together – photography wise that is. I got more comfortable with the gear and started to experiment with getting more than 1:1 magnification using the Raynox DCR-250 & reverse lens technique. I also experimented a lot with flash and diffuser. Lots of hit and misses […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":27,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-36","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beelover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36","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=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beelover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"https:\/\/www.beelover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions\/152"}],"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=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}