{"id":42399,"date":"2026-04-11T07:40:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T14:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=42399"},"modified":"2026-04-15T07:55:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:55:22","slug":"ornamental-pear-blossom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2026\/04\/11\/ornamental-pear-blossom\/","title":{"rendered":"Ornamental pear blossom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just in time.<\/I><\/p>\n

For an index of all Leica-related articles click here<\/a><\/I>.<\/p>\n

These beautiful blossoms line the streets here but sadly last no more than a few days. I was lucky to snip one off a local tree and carefully conveyed it to the studio for some Helicon work:<\/p>\n


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Leica SL2-S, 135mm Elmar lens head at f\/4 on the Leitz Focusing Bellows II<\/a>, LED ring light. ISO 400, 1\/30th second. Composite of 48 (!) images focus stacked in Helicon Focus<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just in time. For an index of all Leica-related articles click here. These beautiful blossoms line the streets here but sadly last no more than a few days. I was lucky to snip one off a local tree and carefully conveyed it to the studio for some Helicon work: Click the image for a larger … Continue reading Ornamental pear blossom<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,111,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leica","category-macro","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42399"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42402,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42399\/revisions\/42402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}