{"id":12135,"date":"2019-01-31T08:41:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T14:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=12135"},"modified":"2019-01-30T21:57:41","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T03:57:41","slug":"skywatch-friday-my-new-lensball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=12135","title":{"rendered":"Skywatch Friday &#8211; My New Lensball"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-flickr wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/QGbqVK\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7869\/31959819677_f39900b6f0_c.jpg\" alt=\"20190127-202944-3\" width=\"599\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One of my favorite bloggers, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Hootin-Anni (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/hootin--anni.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hootin-Anni<\/a>, from south Texas\u00a0posted recently about her <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Lensball (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/lensball.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lensball<\/a>, a sphere of optical quality glass that you use to take photographs of the refracted image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-flickr wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/SifFg3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7920\/33013082468_7e8ce8fe85_c.jpg\" alt=\"20190126-135434-14\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So, being the copycat that I am I had to go one of my own and I am still experimenting with it and checking out instagram feeds and such.  One thing I have learned is that if you are not careful in full sun you might get burned as it is somewhat of a light magnifier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-flickr wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2ern8Ek\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4824\/46888366051_931cf7b3b6.jpg\" alt=\"20190126-135701-9\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, the image comes out upside down so you you have to turn the photo upside down sometimes. So far I like it. It does require a little more manipulation in that you have both hands occupied so I have used it with my Nikon point and and shoot rather than my &#8220;good&#8221; camera. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So anyway, I guess that I&#8217;ll keep it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">I am linking with <a href=\"https:\/\/skyley.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Skywatch Friday. (opens in a new tab)\">Skywatch Friday.<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite bloggers, Hootin-Anni, from south Texas\u00a0posted recently about her Lensball, a sphere of optical quality glass that you use to take photographs of the refracted image. So, being the copycat that I am I had to go one of my own and I am still experimenting with it and checking out instagram [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2362,1271],"class_list":["post-12135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skywatch-friday","tag-lensball","tag-skywatch-friday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12137,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12135\/revisions\/12137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}