{"id":6558,"date":"2010-07-16T20:36:32","date_gmt":"2010-07-17T03:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/?p=6558"},"modified":"2010-07-16T20:36:32","modified_gmt":"2010-07-17T03:36:32","slug":"a-chorus-of-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/?p=6558","title":{"rendered":"A Chorus of One"},"content":{"rendered":"

The best things happen in your periphery. It’s the reason I had the astigmatism correction removed from my glasses. The contrast between my sharp, corrected vision — and the blur in my periphery made me chronically queasy. <\/p>\n

That’s a lousy lede — and I’m too tired to come up with a better one. But workable peripheral vision is relevant to these photos. <\/p>\n

I went to the pool to look for California Newts who migrate to UC Berkeley Botanical Garden for one big newt bash<\/a> every spring. I was kicking myself for not bringing a polarizing filter . . . and then remembered that even if I’d brought the polarizer, it would have been for the wrong lens. So, just like I am when I’m wearing my glasses, I was squinting through the viewfinder, finding ways to cut through the surface glare of the Japanese Pool.<\/p>\n

That’s when, in my periphery, I saw the anomalous shape. If you spend enough time actively looking for animals in their natural camo, a new shape, shadow, or shake in the greenery easily grabs the attention. <\/p>\n

In this case, it was a frog. And not just a frog, but a frog perfectly placed in a teardrop of water — within another teardrop of a lily leaf. I loved the way the frog’s habitat framed her protectively and aesthetically. <\/p>\n

I’m fairly certain this is a Pacific Chorus Frog<\/a>, but amphibians are not my strong suit. I’m much better with birds. Even then, I once shot an image of a Long-billed Curlew<\/a> that ended up on Wikipedia an instant after I uploaded it. It was misidentified in a global database as a Whimbrel, before I could correct the ID. Stupid wiki tricks. So, I’ll just say that based on my current knowledge, I believe this is a Pacific Chorus Frog — particularly since it has the eye-to-jaw black striping. If you know otherwise, please clue me in.<\/p>\n

These three photos show the frog in context, giving a better perspective on its size in relation to the lily pads and pond.<\/i>
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Frog in a Teardrop - \u00a9ingridtaylar<\/p><\/div>
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Frog Spa - \u00a9ingridtaylar<\/p><\/div>
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Find the Frog - \u00a9ingridtaylar<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The best things happen in your periphery. It’s the reason I had the astigmatism correction removed from my glasses. The contrast between my sharp, corrected vision — and the blur in my periphery made me chronically queasy. That’s a lousy lede — and I’m too tired to come up with a better one. But workable peripheral vision is relevant to these photos. I went to the pool to look for California Newts who migrate to […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[474],"class_list":["post-6558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-frogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}