{"id":666,"date":"2010-07-18T05:53:01","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T12:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/?p=666"},"modified":"2013-05-16T06:26:29","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T13:26:29","slug":"gray-hairstreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/gray-hairstreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Gray Hairstreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/201007181.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Gray Hairstreak Butterfly on Desert Lavender\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/201007181-188x125.jpg\" width=\"188\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a>I am so happy and excited when I see a butterfly in my yard because it means I&#8217;ve planted plants and shrubs they like! Here is a photo of a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.butterfliesandmoths.org\/species?l=1553&amp;chosen_state=04*Arizona\" target=\"_blank\">Gray Hairstreak<\/a><\/strong> on one of my <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.delange.org\/Lavender\/Lavender.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Desert Lavenders<\/a><\/strong> which are blooming right now. Before I joined <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/cazba.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">CAZBA<\/a><\/strong>, I never even noticed these and many other tiny butterflies. Now I grab my camera at the slightest movement which is what I did yesterday. (Canon 100mm with 25mm extension tube, ISO 800, 1\/320th sec at f\/11). For those who are new to macro and wonder how I achieved such a soft background with f\/11, check out <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridgeincolour.com\/tutorials\/depth-of-field.htm\">Understanding Depth of Field<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am so happy and excited when I see a butterfly in my yard because it means I&#8217;ve planted plants and shrubs they like! Here is a photo of a Gray Hairstreak on one of my Desert Lavenders which are blooming right now. Before I joined CAZBA, I never even noticed these and many other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,29,28,7],"tags":[172,171],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6151,"href":"https:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions\/6151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}