{"id":1726,"date":"2015-08-06T07:45:14","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T08:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=1726"},"modified":"2015-08-06T07:45:14","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T08:45:14","slug":"stalking-the-geraniums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=1726","title":{"rendered":"Stalking the geraniums"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"Stalking the geraniums\" data-info-url=\"\" data-backend-url=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/plugins\/shariff-sharing\/backend\/index.php\" data-temp=\"\/tmp\" data-ttl=\"60\" data-service=\"gft\" data-services='[\"googleplus\",\"facebook\",\"twitter\",\"info\"]' data-image=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_4581.jpg\" data-url=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=1726\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"color\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div><p>I have a few pots of geraniums on top of a little wall in our garden.\u00a0 When we\u00a0discovered Poppy&#8217;s jumping ability\u00a0we decided this would be the easiest way to stop her jumping up and making an escape over the wall.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past few days I have been trying to find the right location for a self portrait photograph to submit to a camera magazine.\u00a0 it is amazingly difficult to get everything right in the camera when you are in the front of the lens yourself.\u00a0 In the end, this is the photograph I submitted yesterday.\u00a0\u00a0 To get it I had to kneel down behind the wall so my head was in the right position&#8230;but it was too low down when I knelt on the ground.\u00a0 A few cushions made the difference and there I am\u00a0pretending I am about to photograph the geraniums.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_4581.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1725\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_4581.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4581\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_4581.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_4581-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_4581-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a few pots of geraniums on top of a little wall in our garden.\u00a0 When we\u00a0discovered Poppy&#8217;s jumping ability\u00a0we decided this would be the easiest way to stop her jumping up and making an escape over the wall. Over the past few days I have been trying to find the right location for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crudencountry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1727,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions\/1727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}