{"id":314,"date":"2017-08-07T22:32:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T05:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gibsonoutdoorphoto.com?p=314"},"modified":"2017-08-07T22:32:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T05:32:23","slug":"star-sprout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aerial.gibsonoutdoorphoto.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/07\/star-sprout\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Sprout"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_315\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-315\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gibsonoutdoorphoto.comwp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/SRGIBSON_20170701_IMG_0554-EditPC.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-315 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gibsonoutdoorphoto.comwp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/SRGIBSON_20170701_IMG_0554-EditPC-1024x683.jpg?resize=640%2C427\" alt=\"Star Sprout - Haircap moss thrives on the forest floor. White Rock Mountain, Ozark National Forest, Arkansas, USA. Photo by Scott Gibson\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aerial.gibsonoutdoorphoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/SRGIBSON_20170701_IMG_0554-EditPC.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aerial.gibsonoutdoorphoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/SRGIBSON_20170701_IMG_0554-EditPC.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aerial.gibsonoutdoorphoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/SRGIBSON_20170701_IMG_0554-EditPC.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aerial.gibsonoutdoorphoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/SRGIBSON_20170701_IMG_0554-EditPC.jpg?w=1512&amp;ssl=1 1512w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aerial.gibsonoutdoorphoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/SRGIBSON_20170701_IMG_0554-EditPC.jpg?w=2268&amp;ssl=1 2268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Star Sprout &#8211; Haircap moss thrives on the forest floor. White Rock Mountain, Ozark National Forest, Arkansas, USA. Photo by Scott Gibson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Go Play Outside!\u00a0\ud83d\ude0e<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>See It<\/strong>: Approximately 70 species of haircap mosses cover nearly every part of the globe. Scientific name,\u00a0<i>Polytrichum<\/i>, comes from the ancient Greek\u00a0<em>polys<\/em>, meaning &#8220;many&#8221;, and <em>thrix<\/em>, meaning &#8220;hair&#8221;. These tiny samples were along a very humid forested trail in the White Rock Mountain Recreation Area, part of the Ozark National Forest, Arkansas, USA. (<a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/xeykGdroo9N2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/xeykGdroo9N2<\/a>)\u00a0More about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Polytrichum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">haircap mosses<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fs.usda.gov\/recarea\/osfnf\/recarea\/?recid=43501\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">White Rock Mountain Recreation Area<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shoot It<\/strong>: This shot was using a Canon 7D (crop factor 1.6), Canon EF24-70mm f\/2.8 at 62mm and f\/4, 1\/125 sec, and ISO1000, handheld, on July 1, 2017 at 10:38 AM.\u00a0Basic adjustments were made in Photoshop Lightroom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Improve It:<\/strong>\u00a0Why did I include the oak leaf in this shot? What problems are you having with your photographs? Let me know at Inquiries@GibsonOutdoorPhoto.com and I will share some tips to overcome these issues in a future blog post.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Go Play Outside!\u00a0\ud83d\ude0e<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-Scott<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go Play Outside!\u00a0\ud83d\ude0e See It: Approximately 70 species of haircap mosses cover nearly every part of the globe. Scientific name,\u00a0Polytrichum, comes from the ancient Greek\u00a0polys, meaning &#8220;many&#8221;, and thrix, meaning &#8220;hair&#8221;. These tiny samples were along a very humid forested trail in the White Rock &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aerial.gibsonoutdoorphoto.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/07\/star-sprout\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Star Sprout<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peSFLr-54","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aerial.gibsonoutdoorphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aerial.gibsonoutdoorphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aerial.gibsonoutdoorphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aerial.gibsonoutdoorphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aerial.gibsonoutdoorphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/aerial.gibsonoutdoorphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"https:\/\/aerial.gibsonoutdoorphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aerial.gibsonoutdoorphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aerial.gibsonoutdoorphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aerial.gibsonoutdoorphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}