{"id":42608,"date":"2026-04-29T12:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T19:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=42608"},"modified":"2026-04-29T12:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T19:55:10","slug":"dandelions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2026\/04\/29\/dandelions\/","title":{"rendered":"Dandelions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><I>Beauty and fragility.<\/I><\/p>\n<p><I>For an index of all Leica-related articles click <a href=https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/indexes\/photography\/leica\/ target=_blank>here<\/a><\/I>.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/Dandelions_BIG.jpg target=_blank><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog2\/Dandelions.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<I>Click the image for a larger version.<\/I><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>The mature variant is so fragile that I has my son drive me the 200 yards down the road to the dandelion patch to bring back a couple of pristine specimens.  Walking that distance would never have seen them survive.<\/p>\n<p>Leica SL2-S, 100mm Macro-Elmar-R at f\/8, Bellows-R, two strobes. 34 images focus stacked in Helicon Focus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beauty and fragility. For an index of all Leica-related articles click here. Click the image for a larger version. The mature variant is so fragile that I has my son drive me the 200 yards down the road to the dandelion patch to bring back a couple of pristine specimens. Walking that distance would never &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2026\/04\/29\/dandelions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dandelions<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leica","category-macro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42608","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=42608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42610,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42608\/revisions\/42610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}