{"id":512,"date":"2008-06-12T14:20:18","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T20:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/2008\/06\/12\/all-the-worlds-a-stage\/"},"modified":"2008-06-12T14:20:18","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T20:20:18","slug":"all-the-worlds-a-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=512","title":{"rendered":"All the world&#8217;s a stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/stage.JPG\" title=\"stage.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/stage.JPG\" alt=\"stage.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is the high-tech equipment that I&#8217;m using to photograph my plankton.  The center of attention is two microscope slides sealed together with a 3mm gap betwixt.<\/p>\n<p>You wouldn&#8217;t think that depth of field would be an issue with a 3mm photo studio, but my auto-focus camera keeps grabbing the front slide, or the paper behind the slide, as areas of interest and yanking the subjects out of focus.  Today I crammed some bits of moss in between the slides thinking that my newly-benthic photo model would want to perch on the moss.  It didn&#8217;t, but the presence of the moss gave the camera something non-transparent to focus on in the right field of view&#8230; so, look for tiny green sprigs in my future shots.  (That might also give some sense of scale which I&#8217;ve been missing heretofore.)<\/p>\n<p>Thinking about teeny tiny photo shoots inspired me to run a google image search for &#8220;Flea Circus,&#8221; revealing the fact that there is a thriving flea-circus-equipment business in the UK which sells tiny stages, chariots, trapezes, etc.  Look it up if you don&#8217;t believe me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the high-tech equipment that I&#8217;m using to photograph my plankton. The center of attention is two microscope slides sealed together with a 3mm gap betwixt. You wouldn&#8217;t think that depth of field would be an issue with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=512\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}