{"id":2752,"date":"2012-08-07T17:52:42","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T17:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2752"},"modified":"2012-08-07T17:52:42","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T17:52:42","slug":"daily-garden-photo-onions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2752","title":{"rendered":"Daily Garden Photo: Onions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our onions have done poorly this year:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2754\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/08\/daily-garden-photo-onions\/s12_0708w1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2754\" title=\"s12_0708w1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/s12_0708w1-600x399.jpg\" alt=\"Onions\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/s12_0708w1-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/s12_0708w1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/s12_0708w1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>These are quite a mess this year &#8211; due, we think, to the wet weather. I wanted to take this image as a record of what they were like. Rather than just take a shot from a standing position, I wanted to show that they were all affected and show one closer-up. I decided on a low viewpoint with the camera at a angle to the row so that the row diminishes into the distance.<\/p>\n<p>So, I placed the camera on a mini-tripod (free with a magazine), lined it up and set the self-timer to reduce the risk of camera shake (the tripod is cheap plastic and it moves when you press the shutter). I am pleased with the end result &#8211; even if I am not pleased with the onions &#8211; it showed what I wanted it to show. Later on in the morning I dug them up and left them out to dry.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the original version:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2753\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/08\/daily-garden-photo-onions\/s12_0708w0\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2753\" title=\"s12_0708w0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/s12_0708w0-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"onions\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/s12_0708w0-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/s12_0708w0-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/s12_0708w0.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>The full set can be seen in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/garden\/our-garden\/pic-a-day2012\/index.php\">the gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our onions have done poorly this year: These are quite a mess this year &#8211; due, we think, to the wet weather. I wanted to take this image as a record of what they were like. Rather than just take a shot from a standing position, I wanted to show that they were all affected &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2752\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Daily Garden Photo: Onions&#8221;<\/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":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2752"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2756,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752\/revisions\/2756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}