{"id":410,"date":"2007-12-29T09:37:44","date_gmt":"2007-12-29T01:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/?p=410"},"modified":"2008-01-20T00:11:40","modified_gmt":"2008-01-19T16:11:40","slug":"in-full-blossom-at-lake-tekapo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/in-full-blossom-at-lake-tekapo\/","title":{"rendered":"In Full Blossom At Lake Tekapo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-content\/photos\/20071215_40D_0097dpp.jpg?resize=753%2C521&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"753\" height=\"521\" alt=\"In Full Blossom At Lake Tekapo\" class=\"centered\" \/><br \/>\nIf you have been following my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/lipsengtan\/photoblog\">dad&#8217;s photoblog<\/a>, you would have come across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/lipsengtan\/photoblog\/?p=539\">his latest post on Russell lupins<\/a> on our trip to New Zealand. These flowers were also in full bloom at scenic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tekapotourism.co.nz\/index.htm\">Lake Tekapo<\/a>, which certainly lived up to its reputation as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newzealand.com\/travel\/destinations\/regions\/christchurch-canterbury\/towns.cfm\/nodeid\/108.html\">a photographer&#8217;s dream come true<\/a>. I am surprised though that these beautiful flowers are notorious for its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doc.govt.nz\/templates\/MultiPageDocumentTOC.aspx?id=40084\">ravaging behaviour as a weed<\/a>, with damaging effects on New Zealand&#8217;s natural environment. <\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Canon 40D technical report<\/strong>: One interesting feature that the 40D has over my old 20D is Live View mode, which allowed viewing of the viewfinder image over the LCD &#8216;live&#8217; prior to clicking the shot, digi-camera style. This certainly came in handy for the above shot which was taken on a very low-mounted tripod, making it difficult to peer into the viewfinder unless I sat down on the ground (which Dad did!). The super-imposed grid on the Live View display also enabled me to easily align the horizon properly in many of the landscape pictures I took, something which may not be easy through the viewfinder itself. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-content\/photos\/thumb_20071215_40D_0097dpp.jpg\" width=\"130\" height=\"89\" alt=\"In Full Blossom At Lake Tekapo\" \/>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landscapes","category-travel","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/przUn-6C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}