{"id":17052,"date":"2011-12-23T13:00:07","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=17052"},"modified":"2011-12-29T13:48:16","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T18:48:16","slug":"morning-eye-candy-looking-back-at-february-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2011\/12\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-looking-back-at-february-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back: February 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the depths of winter, sometimes all I want to do is hunker down in a warm place and read poetry. In February 2011, I took refuge in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2011\/02\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-the-disattired-trees\/\">one particular poem<\/a> by William Carlos Williams, that helped me find new beauty in the Garden&#8217;s winter landscape.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2011\/02\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-the-disattired-trees\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"The Disattired Trees\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/IVO0887.jpg\" alt=\"The Disattired Trees\" width=\"580\" height=\"392\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2011\/02\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-the-disattired-trees\/\"><strong>The Disattired Trees<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Garden research scientist and ethnobotanist took us on a tour of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/gardens\/conservatory\/\">Enid A. Haupt Conservatory<\/a> during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/caribbean-garden\/\"><em>Caribbean Garden<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DZfzPbJ4sMc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2011\/02\/video\/take-a-look-at-the-caribbean-garden-with-an-ethnobnotanist\/\"><strong>A Tour of <em>Caribbean Garden<\/em> with Ethnobotanist Ina Vandebroek<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">After what felt like the year&#8217;s umpteenth storm, even the Garden&#8217;s avian residents were beginning to feel a bit exasperated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2011\/02\/wildlife\/afternoon-eye-candy-even-the-birds-are-fed-up\/\"><img data-attachment-id=\"9082\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2011\/02\/wildlife\/afternoon-eye-candy-even-the-birds-are-fed-up\/attachment\/_ivo9859\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/IVO9859.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1021,680\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D700&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1296642361&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"One Obviously Fed Up Robin\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/IVO9859-300x199.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/IVO9859.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9082\" title=\"One Obviously Fed Up Robin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/IVO9859.jpg\" alt=\"One Obviously Fed Up Robin\" width=\"580\" height=\"392\" \/><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2011\/02\/wildlife\/afternoon-eye-candy-even-the-birds-are-fed-up\/\"><strong>Even the Birds Are Fed-Up With Winter<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So we retreated to the Conservatory to take a closer look at the plants of the permanent collection, through a camera&#8217;s lens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jj7MD7ycVdU\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/2011\/02\/video\/photography-tip-get-closer\/\"><strong>Better Photography in the Conservatory &#8211; Professional Photo Tip: Get Closer!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not too late to help support The New York Botanical Garden in efforts like these before the year is out. Your gift contributes to the preservation, education, and cultivation of the natural world. <a href=\"https:\/\/secure3.convio.net\/nybg\/site\/Donation2?df_id=1460&amp;1460.donation=form1&amp;JServSessionIdr004=7bwrrn6mv5.app333b\">Become a part of our 120-year history<\/a>.<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Year in Review: 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2011\/12\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-looking-back-at-january-2011\/\">January<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2011\/12\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-looking-back-at-february-2011\/\">February<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2011\/12\/photography\/looking-back-march-2011\/\">March<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2011\/12\/photography\/looking-back-april-2011\/\">April<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2011\/12\/photography\/looking-back-may-2011\/\">May<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2011\/12\/photography\/looking-back-june-2011\/\">June<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2011\/12\/photography\/looking-back-july-2011\/\">July<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2011\/12\/photography\/looking-back-august-2011\/\">August<\/a> &#8211; September &#8211; October &#8211; November &#8211; December<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 2011 was full of photography tips, scientist-led tours, poetry, and fed-up birds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[146],"tags":[4701,172,2072,318,2073,4631],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-4r2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17052"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17067,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17052\/revisions\/17067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}